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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.
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Lenore Ulric as Wetona

Date: 1916
Description: Lenore Ulric draws her bow crouched on a papier-mâché boulder. She starred as Wetona in the 1916 Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona...
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Full-Length Portrait of Lenore Ulric in Character as Wetona

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of Lenore Ulric as Wetona in the Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona which opened at the Lyceum Theatre in Febru...
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Irene Castle in American Indian Dance Costume

Date: 1914
Description: Full-length studio portrait of the dancer Irene Castle in an American Indian costume with many feathers. It is autographed "Sincerely Yours, Irene Castle."
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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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