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View of the Great Treaty Held at Prairie du Chien

Date: 09 1825
Description: Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov...
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Unidentified Man Dancing

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Description: An unidentified man dancing for a group of onlookers in Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. He is wearing a Sioux-style eagle feather...
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View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
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Indian Sugar Makers

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Description: Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers.
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Sioux Indians at St. Paul Ice Carnival

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Description: A Sioux woman is sitting on the ground, and two Sioux men are standing in front of tepees.
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Native Americans and Whites

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Description: An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat...
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Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
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Indian Protest

Date: 08 02 1971
Description: Site of a demonstration by Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa against the Northern States Power Company dam on the Chippewa Flowage, Sawyer County. There is an A...
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Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
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Glacier National Park

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Description: View of Glacier National Park, including people, horses, and tipis.
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Traveling Medicine Show

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Description: A group of people posed among tents, probably a traveling medicine show. On the table in the foreground, a contortionist is visible. A banner above a stage...
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Copy Photograph of Harold Jones Funmaker and Others

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Description: Copy photograph of two Ho-Chunk men posing kneeling, and a third boy standing, but etched out of the negative. They are all wearing full regalia. The man o...
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Ho-Chunk Men in Regalia

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Description: Copy photograph of image of Ho-Chunk men, two posing kneeling, with two people standing behind them on the left. One of the men standing has his left arm r...
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Studio Portrait of Henry Thunder

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Description: Elderly Ho-Chunk man, Henry Thunder, posing making a gesture with his hand inside a tent with light rays.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk woman, standing outdoors in front of a tent, wearing a Sioux headdress and a Chippewa bandoleer.
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Copy Photograph of Jim Swallow and William Massey

Date: 1908
Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk man, Jim Swallow, in regalia posing standing and holding a bow in front of cloth barriers or tents. From a powwow group from ...
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Copy Photograph of Three Young Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Copy photograph of three young Ho-Chunk women wearing several necklaces posing sitting on the ground outdoors in front of a white tent in a field.
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Medicine Dance Lodge

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Description: A Medicine Dance Lodge at Morrison Creek. There is a long tent in a field with a large group of people and children sitting and standing underneath it. The...

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