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Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Photograph

Red Cliff Reservation Cemetery

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Description: Man posing by a gate in the Red Cliff Indian Reservation cemetery.
Photograph

Mound and Barn

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Description: View of large platform mound with small barn in the foreground. The numbers 1, 2, and 3 are written on the photograph in ink.
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
Photograph

Mr. Bearskin

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Description: Mr. Bearskin, a medicine man, at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first cur...
Photograph

Tecumsa and Family

Date: 1922
Description: Tecumsa, a Potowatomi, and his family. Tecumsa is standing in the back in the center, and a man is sitting in front of him on a blanket holding up an hatch...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Sam Blowsnake-Carley at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village wearing a headdress in front of a teepee.
Photograph

Harrell International Institute Grounds

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Description: Harrell International Institute grounds. A few people stroll and relax among the trees.
Photograph

Creek Nation Reservation

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Description: Men walk on a hill at a Creek Nation Reservation, in Sapulpa, Indian Territory.
Photograph

Pechanga Day School

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Description: Students and teachers in front of Pechanga day school at Mission Agency.
Photograph

Uintah School in Winter

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Description: View across field of the Uintah Agency School behind a fence in winter. Mountains are visible in the background.
Photograph

Aztalan State Park

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Description: Little girl under the "Aztalan Mound Park" sign, in a field. Another person stands in the background on one of the mounds.
Photograph

Rosebud Agency

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Description: View from hill towards the Rosebud Agency.
Photograph

Sioux Tepees

Date: 1898
Description: Sioux tepees at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
Photograph

Keshena Indian School

Date: 1929
Description: Keshena Indian School, an Indian Government School building.
Photograph

Government Indian School

Date: 1929
Description: The Government Indian School in Keshena.
Photograph

Keshena Indian School

Date: 1929
Description: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Keshena Indian School.
Photograph

St. Joseph's Indian School

Date: 1936
Description: St. Joseph's Indian School on the Keshena Menominee Reservation.
Photograph

Indian Graveyard

Date: 1910
Description: The Indian Graveyard at the Catholic Cemetery.
Postcard

O-Sho-Ga Monument

Date: 1918
Description: The O-Sho-Ga monument near the Indian burial grounds. Caption reads: "Apostle Islands, Wis. Madeline Island, La Pointe, O-Sho-Ga Monument near the old Indi...

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