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Copy Photograph of Two Native American/Sioux Men

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Description: Copy photograph of two Native American/Sioux men wearing full regalia, including breast plates and feathered bonnets. The photograph is inscribed, "Sioux I...
Photograph

Portrait of David Goodvillage with Wife and Granddaughter

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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 ...
Photograph

Zintka Lanuni Colby in Indian Clothing

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Description: Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, as a young child wearing traditional Indian clothing of a fringed shirt, and pants. She is ...
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

Summer and Winter Home of the Sioux

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Description: A view of Sioux Native American tepees. Caption reads: "Summer and Winter Home of the Sioux."
Photograph

Crowd Outside Indian Trading Store

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Description: Elevated view of large crowd congregating with horse-drawn buggies outside of W.H. Robinson, an Indian trading store. Caption reads: "W.H. Robinson Indian ...
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...
Photograph

Shawano Cheerleaders Wearing Indian Headdresses

Date: 03 14 1957
Description: Six cheerleaders standing in a row. Each of the girls has a letter "S" sewn on the front of their sweaters and are wearing (Sioux) Native American "colorfu...
Postcard

First Peace Council ever Held between Chippewas and Siouxs

Date: 1896
Description: Colored postcard view of "Buffalo Bill" Cody center right in white coat and hat surrounded by Native Americans in traditional garb, military personnel and ...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western & North-Western Frontier

Date: 1837
Description: This map shows planned military posts/depots, barracks, rivers, lakes, roads, existing forts, and land assigned to various Indian tribes. Arkansas, Illinoi...
Map or Atlas

Neenába's Map : line on the Red Cedar Fork

Date: 1831
Description: This map was drawn by a Chippewa leader and shows the boundary lines between the Chippewa and Sioux territories and a saw-mill built by settlers without pe...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrative of the Route of H.R. Schoolcraft, U.S. Ind. A., Between L. Superior & Mississippi RIver

Date: 1947
Description: This map shows the territories of Chippewa, Sioux, Winnebago, and Monomone tribes. It also shows navigation notes for rivers and lakes, Indian villages, hi...
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...
Map or Atlas

Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France: La Floride, la Virginie, Pensilvanie, Caroline, Nouvelle Angleterre et Nouvelle Yorck, l'Isle de Terre Neuve, la Louisiane, et le Cours de la Riviere de Misisipi

Date: 1705
Description: Map of America east of the Mississippi River showing boundaries, rivers, portages, forts, cities, villages, and Native American land. Annotations on early ...
Photograph

Sioux Sun Dance

Date: 1874
Description: Copy photograph of a painting of a Sioux Sun Dance ritual. Painting by Jules Tavernier.
Photograph

Valley of the Minnesota (St. Peter's) River

Date: 1884
Description: Lithographic engraving depicting two people on a bluff overlooking a river. Several canoes are present on the river. Caption reads: "'Valley of the Minneso...

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