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Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe

Date: 1835
Description: Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du...
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Joliet and Marquette

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Description: Father Marquette and Joliet at the Mississippi River.
Painting

Marquette and Joliet

Date: 1921
Description: Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1893
Description: Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built...
Drawing

Lake Superior Area

Date: 1852
Description: Illustration of four Indians on Madeline Island with a canoe in the water on the shore.
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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 06 1837
Description: Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ...
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Village of Folle-Avoines

Date: 1842
Description: A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ...
Photograph

Indians Fishing From Boats

Date: 07 16 1898
Description: A group of Ojibwa men fishing from boats.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Indian with Canoe and Wigwams

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Description: View towards a Ho-Chunk Indian wearing a blanket and holding a pipe standing behind a beached canoe. In the background are two typical dwellings (a chipote...
Painting

Indian Duck Hunting

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Description: Watercolor of Canadian Prairie Indian at lake's shore with gun in hand and a recently hunted duck on the ground. A dog is at his feet. On the far shoreline...
Book or Pamphlet

Winnebago Wigwam

Date: 1884
Description: Indians standing and sitting near wigwams. Four wigwam frames are covered, with the one on the right uncovered, with a campfire inside. In the distance are...
Photograph

Chippewa Family Moving

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Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) family moving their disassembled wagon and grindstone from one village to another on two canoes somewhere in northern Wisconsin. This i...
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Algonquian Indians massacre Virginia settlers in 1622

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Jamestown Settlement, 1622, purporting to show the massacre of 347 settlers by Openchancanough and his alliance of tribes in the Jamestown area.
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Canoes of Oonalashka

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 50. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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Native of Oonalashka, and Their Habitations

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 57. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
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Men-dow-min, Or The Corn

Date: 1835
Description: Men-dow-min, or the Corn, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) dwarf. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Green Bay (1827).
Book or Pamphlet

Menominee Indian Village, Wolf River

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Description: A Menominee Indian Village on Wolf River. There are dwellings on the shore and many people in canoes are on the river.
Drawing

Indian Taking Aim

Date: 1840
Description: Photograph of a drawing of an Indian aiming his bow and arrow, with one foot standing on an earlier kill.
Photograph

Chippewa Men with Canoes

Date: 1898
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
Photograph

Chippewa Men with Canoes

Date: 1898
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.

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