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Potawatomi Indians Cooking

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Description: Illustration of three Potawatomi Indians cooking.
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Chippewas Gathering Wild Rice

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Description: Illustration of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians gathering wild rice into a canoe.
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First Thanksgiving

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Description: Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America.
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Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
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Creek Woman Pounds Meal

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Description: A Creek woman pounds meal outside.
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Hopi Women Cooking

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Description: Hopi women cooking.
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Sioux Woman Singeing a Dog

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Description: A Sioux Indian woman is singeing a dog for soup at the Rosebud Agency.
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Indian Woman Cooking

Date: 1898
Description: A woman prepares a meal at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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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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Dedication of Winnebago Indian Village

Date: 07 1956
Description: Women make fry bread at the dedication of the Winnebago Indian Village.
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Drying Squash

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Description: Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) method of drying squash by cutting it into strips and hanging it over a scaffold.
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Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Group of Ho-Chunk men, women, and children in a circle, and in smaller groups outside the circle. They are several summer lodges. Probably a meal.
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Boys after Pie-Eating Contest

Date: 1936
Description: Four boys smiling with pie filling on their faces standing around a table with four empty pie tins. Behind them is a large crowd of children.
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Drying Jerky

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian man and boy posing next to a birch frame used for drying jerky.
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Indian Woman with Blueberries

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian woman standing on rocks holding two containers of blueberries.

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