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Indian Protest

Date: 04 26 1971
Description: Led by James White, president of DRUMS, members of the organization and sympathizers staged a protest Monday at the First Wisconsin National Bank, 743 N. W...
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Menominee County Economic Development

Date: 10 1968
Description: During a visit to Menominee County, Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall and Senator Gaylord Nelson learn about a proposed resort complex.
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Drummers at Pow Wow

Date: 08 07 1967
Description: Harry Funmaker (left) of Wisconsin Dells, and Ray Tahawah of Lawton, Oklahoma, drumming. A crowd of young people is in the background.
Map or Atlas

Partie occidentale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France : ou sont les Nations des Ilinois, de Tracy, les Iroquois, et plusieurs autres peuples; avec la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte etc.

Date: 1688
Description: This map includes vignettes of Amerindian life with text describing geography, culture, and exploration activity, written in French. The Great Lakes, river...
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Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 1975
Description: Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb...
Print

Blatz Waukesha Water, Label

Date: 1924
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Blatz Waukesha Water, Bottled at the Springs, Waukesha WI, A natural spring water, s...
Photograph

"The Goddess of Lost Lake" Publicity Still

Date: 1918
Description: Publicity still from the silent film "The Goddess of Lost Lake," featuring Monte Blue playing an Indian chief.
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"The Goddess of Lost Lake" scene still

Date: 1918
Description: Movie still from the Hodkinson silent film "The Goddess of Lost Lake," featuring Monte Blue as "an Indian prince," according to the caption.
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Group Posed with Logs

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Description: Group of twelve men and one woman posed with a load of logs waiting to be pulled by two horses harnessed to a sled. Several of the men hold cant hooks or p...
Postcard

Vi Teeples and her Eden Point, by Lake Arbutus

Date: 1986
Description: Painting of a woman standing on a beach and holding a spear point in her hand. In the sand near her is a spear, several arrowheads, and a bag. She is weari...
Photograph

Lillian St. Cyr

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Lillian St. Cyr standing and posing in a traditional Native American beaded buckskin dress and floor length headdress. St. Cyr, also known as Red Wing, was...
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Lillian St. Cyr Sewing a Headdress

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Lillian St. Cyr working on a headdress. The headdress has a beaded headband with feathers attached to it. She is wearing a traditional Native American bead...
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Indian Fire Dance

Date: 1952
Description: A Native American man performing a fire dance at Camp Decorah.

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