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Postcard

Group of Native Americans

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Description: Group of Native Americans-Potowatomi standing in front of rock formation.
Drawing

Potawatomi Indians Cooking

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Description: Illustration of three Potawatomi Indians cooking.
Print

Sylvia and Rachel Hall Captured by Indians

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Description: Drawing depicting the capture of Sylvia and Rachel Hall by Indians near Ottawa, Illinois during the Indian Creek Massacre, 1832. They were later released a...
Print

Wa-Baun-See

Date: 1838
Description: Wau-Baun-See, a hand-colored lithographic portrait of a Potawatamie Indian. This image from McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes," (1849-1850) ...
Photograph

Shaubena

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Description: A formal portrait of the Potowatomie chief Shaubena or (Shabona) made at Hennepin, Illinois shortly before his death in 1859. Shaubena was a grandnephew o...
Photograph

Important Potawatomi Men

Date: 1890
Description: A group of locally important Potawatomi Indians, apparently photographed in a government or law office at Escanaba, Michigan. Left to right standing are Fr...
Photograph

John Nuwi

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Description: Three-quarter length formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Nuwi, a Mascouten (or Prairie) Potawatomi, who lived at Skunk Hill in Wood Coun...
Photograph

Abraham Mishegand or Mishicott

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Description: Portrait of Potawatomi Indian, Michicott.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Potawatomi Indian Chief

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Description: Potawatomi Indian Chief Kee Toos.
Photograph

Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians

Date: 10 1914
Description: Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians taken in front of Lathrop Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Included are: Mr. (William) Kershaw (M...
Photograph

Chief Simon Kahquados with Horse

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Description: Candid portrait of Potawatomi Chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados holding the bridle of a horse.
Photograph

Reburial of Chief Simon Kahquados

Date: 05 30 1931
Description: A group of people pose around the casket containing the body of Chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados at Peninsula State Park during a reburial ceremony.
Photograph

Totem Pole in Peninsula State Park

Date: 1930
Description: A totem pole erected in 1927 in honor of the aboriginal inhabitants of Wisconsin. Potawatomi chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados (1851-November 27, 1930), an ...
Photograph

Potawatomi Women

Date: 1915
Description: Outdoor portrait of three women: (left to right) Martha Philemon of Bark River, Michigan; Mrs. Eve K. Sahpenais, wife of John Yello Bird; and Sarah Sahpena...
Photograph

Albert Thunder and Family

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Description: Group portrait of Albert Thunder, his wife and two children standing outside a canvas covered wigwam.
Photograph

Potawatomi Couple

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man and woman, identified only as Potawatomie [sic] Indians, posing in front of a log structure. The woman is wearing large earrings and ...

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