Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-17 of 17

Print

Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre

Date: 1832
Description: Funeral of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre.
Photograph

Sioux Indians at St. Paul Ice Carnival

Date: 
Description: A Sioux woman is sitting on the ground, and two Sioux men are standing in front of tepees.
Photograph

Mrs. Ed St. Cyr (He-no-nee-kaw), Sioux

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Ed St. Cyr (He-no-nee-kaw), of the Sioux tribe. The text on the back reads: "Mrs. Ed. St. Cyr. She died about two years ago. I helped ...
Photograph

Mrs. Alexander (Elick) St. Cyr, Sioux

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Alexander (Elick) St. Cyr, of the Sioux tribe. The text on the back reads: "Mrs. Alexander (Elick) St. Cyr. She came back to Wisconsin,...
Photograph

Old Bets, Sioux

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Old Bets, of the Sioux tribe. Old Bets will be remembered with gratitude by the Minnesota captives for her kindness in 1862.
Photograph

U-Se-Do-Ha, Sioux

Date: 
Description: Portrait of U-Se-Do-Ha, a Sioux woman.
Photograph

Sioux Give Away Horses

Date: 1897
Description: Sioux give away horses at the Rosebud Agency. A large group of people are watching from a shelter on the left covered with branches.
Photograph

Sioux Tepees

Date: 1898
Description: Sioux tepees at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
Photograph

Portrait of David Goodvillage with Wife and Granddaughter

Date: 1897
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, woman, and girl, all posing standing. They are identified as David Goodvillag...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Four Elderly Sioux Women

Date: 
Description: Copy photograph of four elderly Sioux women preparing dogs for a meal. The inscription on the woman sitting on the left reads: "Squaws preparing dogs for S...
Photograph

Ella James Wearing Objects from the Collection of Tom Roddy

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young European American woman posing standing holding an unstrung bow. She is wearing several Ho-Chunk ...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Large Native American Group

Date: 
Description: Copy photograph of a large group of Native American/Sioux men, women, and children all wearing regalia, posed outdoors standing and sitting in front of a t...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Woman and Girl

Date: 
Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux woman posed outdoors standing with a Native American/Sioux girl. Both are dressed in regalia. The photograph is ...
Photograph

Portrait of David Goodvillage with Wife and Granddaughter

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of a Sioux man, Ho-Chunk woman, and Ho-Chunk girl, all posing standing in front of a painted backdrop and wearing full regalia. Identified ...
Print

The Scalp Dance

Date: 1844
Description: "The Scalp Dance is given as a celebration of a victory; and amongst this tribe, as I learned whilst residing with them, danced in the night, by the light ...
Photograph

Isham Family

Date: 1898
Description: Ira Robinson Isham family at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation. From left to right: Isham's son-in-law, Isham, his daughter, and Indian medicine m...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The Battle of St. Croix Falls Historic Marker

Date: 07 26 1964
Description: The newly crowned beauty queens and attendants from St. Croix Falls and neighboring Taylors Falls stand with Willis Erickson (right), president of the Polk...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at:

feedback@wisconsinhistory.org