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Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the...
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Native American Game

Date: 1911
Description: Indians playing a game at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. "The man in the center is holding counting sticks. A constant drumming is kept up to make concentra...
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American-Indian Youth Gathered Around International Truck

Date: 1953
Description: Color photograph of young Native-American men dressed in traditional clothing standing around an International R-Line truck. The young men are with a small...
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Indian Garden Bed

Date: 1912
Description: Indian cultivated garden beds, partially covered with snow, "South of West over the big area." Now known as the Eulrich Site, a mile from the shore of Lake...
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Leech Lake Agency Teepee

Date: 1901
Description: A small pox patient's Leech Lake Agency teepee, burned after the man's removal.
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Indian Girls Perform a Doll Drill

Date: 06 27 1900
Description: Indian girls perform a doll drill for school entertainment at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Indian Camp

Date: 07 04 1901
Description: Indian camp at Nespelim [Nespelem] at the Coville Agency in Washington.
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Native American Event

Date: 1904
Description: A group of people watches an event, possibly put on by the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico.
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Indian Petroglyphs

Date: 1960
Description: Norb Bybee shoots a self-portrait with his camera of petroglyphs that are carved in the face of a rock shelter near Gullikson's Glen.
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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 ...
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In a Piegan Lodge

Date: 1910
Description: The original caption reads: "Little Plume with his son Yellow Kidney occupies the position of honor, the space at the rear opposite the entrance. The pictu...
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A Medicine Pipe — Piegan

Date: 1910
Description: The original caption reads: "Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and...
Painting

Lacrosse Game

Date: 10 07 1934
Description: James Jacco, Red Cliff Chippewa, and William Webster, Odanah Chippewa, competing in a lacrosse game.
Poster

Red Power Wisconsin Pow-Wow Poster

Date: 10 05 1970
Description: Poster for an American Indian Pow-Wow, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavillion [sic], October 10, including a coalition of nativ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Indian Powwow

Date: 07 04 1913
Description: Indian "Powwow" and Lacrosse contest between various Indian reservations.
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Red Cliff Indian Reservation

Date: 1913
Description: Powwow at the Red Cliff Indian Reservation on the shores of Lake Superior.
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Red Cliff Indian Reservation

Date: 1913
Description: Native American at a Red Cliff Indian Reservation Powwow on the shores of Lake Superior.
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Frisk Cloud Sitting on a Steer

Date: 1905
Description: Frisk Cloud (MauhHeTaChaEKah) is riding at cow at a powwow. Watching Frisk, left to right, are two unidentified men, Albert Thunder (CheNunkEToKaRaKah), Ge...
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Ho-Chunk Group at Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: A group of performers taking a break from entertaining tourists. The man on the left is wearing a traditional Ho-Chunk beaded shirt, belt, and breechcloth ...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Crowd at Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Groups of Ho-Chunk and non-Indians gathering on the streets of Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration.

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