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View of the Great Treaty Held at Prairie du Chien

Date: 09 1825
Description: Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
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View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
Photograph

"Ponca Indian Squaw Dance"

Date: 07 1894
Description: Titled "A Ponca Indian Squaw dance". The participants hold up flags.
Photograph

Pueblo Indian Day Schools Album

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Description: A page from an album of photographs of Pueblo Indian Day Schools, showing the Laguna, Santo Domingo, Acoma, and Isleta school buildings.
Photograph

Governor Phillip at Victory Celebration

Date: 07 09 1919
Description: Governor Phillip outdoors at a victory celebration.
Photograph

Camp Ammon

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Description: Entrance to "Camp Ammon," the Boy Scout camp at the Wisconsin State Fair. The camp was named for the director of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture.
Photograph

Gifford's Home on East Lake

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Description: People on the shore of East Lake (now called Lake Tahkodah) by the Gifford residence, with tipis in the distance.
Photograph

Oneida G.A.R.

Date: 1907
Description: Oneida members of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Parish Hall is in the background.
Photograph

Menominee Ceremony

Date: 1940
Description: Slightly elevated view of a Menominee Ceremony, possibly the beginning of a dance.
Painting

Fort Shelby/Fort McKay

Date: 1823
Description: British evacuation of their fort at Prairie du Chien after the end of the War of 1812. Fort Shelby, the first fort at Prairie du Chien, was built in 1814 b...
Photograph

Creating Menominee County

Date: 07 1959
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a...
Photograph

Panorama of Chippewa Indians at Odanah Fair

Date: 1912
Description: Panoramic image of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians at a fair in northern Wisconsin. Caption under the image reads, "Souvenier [sic] of Odanah, Fair 1913."...
Photograph

Menominee Tribal Restoration

Date: 04 22 1975
Description: Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton signing the documents that restored tribal status to the Menominee Indians. Watching the ceremony are Senator Gaylo...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Girl

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Description: Belle Mattie Mike "ENooKah" (First Daughter), daughter of John Mike, Jr. "HayShooKeeKah" (One Horn) and his wife, Kate Littleblackhawk "ENooNeeKah" (Woman)...
Photograph

Vilas Park Indian Mounds Memorial

Date: 10 07 1914
Description: Sara (Mrs. Joseph) Mallon (Menominee) of Milwaukee, wearing a sash stands between two American flags behind a memorial that reads, "Indian Mounds: One of s...
Photograph

Ottawa Family with Car

Date: 1907
Description: An Ottawa Indian family in traditional dress pose next to a car with a Caucasian man. The car is decorated with American flags as though for a special occa...
Photograph

Indians Visiting Dodge County Fair

Date: 1898
Description: Native American Indians in traditional dress outside their teepees (tipis) at the Dodge County Fair. There is a large building in the background along with...
Photograph

Winnebago Ceremony

Date: 1940
Description: A small crowd gathers for a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) ceremony under an open air structure, probably in the Wisconsin Dells. Two men in ceremonial dress stand i...

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