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Chief Little Black Hawk

Date: 1895
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of George Blackhawk (WonkShiekChoNeeKah), sitting, and an unidentified man who is standing and w...
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Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 18 feet in the air from a 6-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. A man stands behind the pipe on the right.
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Lower Brule Agency Water Pipe

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Description: Water gushes 60 feet in the air from a 4-inch pipe at the Lower Brule Agency. Two men stand on the left near pumping machinery.
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Leech Lake Agency Medical Care

Date: 1901
Description: Dr. Stephenson, Leech Lake Agency physician, and assistants prepare a small pox patient for removal to the hospital.
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Indians Thresh Wheat

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Description: Indians thresh the first wheat at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa.
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Men on Horseback

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Description: Men or cowboys on horseback at the Indian Warm Springs Agency.
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Cain Brunoe

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Description: Left side view of Cain Brunoe, an Indian "cowboy," sitting on horseback at the Warm Springs Agency.
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Dr. War Eagle

Date: 1898
Description: Dr. War Eagle shoots at a target using a bow and arrow at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Withertail, Sioux Chief

Date: 1898
Description: Withertail, a Sioux Chief, at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. He is sitting outdoors in front of a tipi.
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Chippewa Men with Canoes

Date: 1898
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Chippewa Men with Canoes

Date: 1898
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Otoe Police

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Description: Otoe Indian police on horseback.
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Dream Drum Dancers

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Description: Five Ho-Chunk performers in front of cloth barriers or tents. A powwow group from the 1908 Homecoming. The five are full brothers according to the 1881 tri...
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Governor Phillip at Victory Celebration

Date: 07 09 1919
Description: Governor Phillip outdoors at a victory celebration.
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Chief John Young

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Description: John Young, Potawatomi Indian Chief near Marshfield. He came to Wisconsin from Illinois about 1840. He is buried in the Indian Village at McCord, Wisconsin...
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Joe Wisconsin, Potawatomi Indian

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Description: Joe Wisconsin from near Sheboygan Falls. He died near Blackwell, Wisconsin, in the spring of 1925.
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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Preparing Corn for Drying

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American woman is sitting on the ground preparing corn for drying. A man, with arms akimbo, is standing nearby, observing. Husked corn is piled on...
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Shadomo

Date: 1891
Description: Tintype (ferrotype) portrait of Shadomo, or Dirty Pelican, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) from the Odanah Reservation near Ashland.
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Stoddard Harvesting Wild Rice

Date: 1941
Description: Joe Stoddard of the Chippewa tribe harvesting wild rice on the Bad River Indian Reservation.

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