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Indians Fighting at Fort Mackenzie

Date: 08 28 1833
Description: Indians fighting at Fort Mackenzie (Montana).
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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...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
Painting

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 ...
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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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Construction of Fort Crawford

Date: 1940
Description: Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o...
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Combat at Fort McKenzie

Date: 1832
Description: Indians in combat at Fort McKenzie on August 28th, 1833.
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Ho-Chunk Ceremonial Performers

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Description: Ho-Chunk ceremonial performers posing on the sandy riverbank in front of a steamboat and rock formation.
Book or Pamphlet

J.F. Seiberling & Co. Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Front and back covers of an advertising brochure for the New Empire line of mowers, reapers and grain binders manufactured by J.F. Seiberling & Company. Th...
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"Ponca Indian Squaw Dance"

Date: 07 1894
Description: Titled "A Ponca Indian Squaw dance". The participants hold up flags.
Photograph

Riconde Day School

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Description: Riconde day school at Mission Agency. There is a bell and an American flag in the front of the building.
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Tobaba Day School

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Description: Tobaba Day School at Mission Agency, California.
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Pima Agency Grounds and Buildings

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Description: Grounds and buildings of the Pima Agency, near Phoenix. A long, tree-lined road leads up to an office building, behind which flies an American flag.
Photograph

Pueblo Indian Day Schools Album

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Description: A page from an album of photographs of Pueblo Indian Day Schools, showing the Laguna, Santo Domingo, Acoma, and Isleta school buildings.
Photograph

Rosebud Agency

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Description: View from hill towards the Rosebud Agency.
Photograph

Lower Cut Meat Creek School

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Description: Children outdoors for recess at the Lower Cut Meat Creek School, part of the Rosebud Agency.
Photograph

Cherokee Boy

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Description: C.W. Turner, Jr., a young Cherokee "Rough Rider" who wished to go to war.
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Grave of Pahoppa

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Description: The grave of Pahoppa. This image comes from an Osage album with the inscription: "Compliments of G.W. Parsons."
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Hayward Indian School

Date: 1920
Description: View of the Hayward Indian School, including the boys' building, chapel and schoolrooms, and the girls' building.
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Governor Phillip at Victory Celebration

Date: 07 09 1919
Description: Governor Phillip outdoors at a victory celebration.

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