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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

Stockade and Blockhouse Replica

Date: 1960
Description: View of a stockade and blockhouse replica built on the site of the original stockade erected in 1862 during a small Sioux Indian uprising in nearby Minneso...
Postcard

Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1940
Description: Dipslay of Sioux Indian Relics. Caption reads: "Barry Room, Sioux Indian Relics, Douglas County Historical Museum, Superior, Wis."
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Kaleidoscope

Date: 09 14 1970
Description: Cover of "Kaleidoscope," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of Native American Chief Sitting Bull, highlighted with red.
Photograph

Portrait of David Goodvillage with Wife and Granddaughter

Date: 1897
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, woman, and girl, all posing standing. They are identified as David Goodvillag...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Four Elderly Sioux Women

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Description: Copy photograph of four elderly Sioux women preparing dogs for a meal. The inscription on the woman sitting on the left reads: "Squaws preparing dogs for S...
Photograph

Ella James Wearing Objects from the Collection of Tom Roddy

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young European American woman posing standing holding an unstrung bow. She is wearing several Ho-Chunk ...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Large Native American Group

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Description: Copy photograph of a large group of Native American/Sioux men, women, and children all wearing regalia, posed outdoors standing and sitting in front of a t...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Man and Horse

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man posed standing outdoors, holding a feathered spear and wearing a large bonnet. He is standing next to a hors...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Camp and Dance Ritual

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux camp and dance ritual, including a man wearing a buffalo horn headdress. In the background there are people sitt...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Woman and Girl

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux woman posed outdoors standing with a Native American/Sioux girl. Both are dressed in regalia. The photograph is ...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Portrait of a Native American/Sioux Man

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man with white hair. He is wearing a bear claw necklace. The photograph is inscribed, "Sioux Indian, Black Hills...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Camp

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux camp including a large group of people, tipis, and a long lodge. The photograph is inscribed, "Indian Village Be...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Two Native American/Sioux Men

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Description: Copy photograph of two Native American/Sioux men wearing full regalia, including breast plates and feathered bonnets. The photograph is inscribed, "Sioux I...
Photograph

Portrait of David Goodvillage with Wife and Granddaughter

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Description: Studio portrait of a Sioux man, Ho-Chunk woman, and Ho-Chunk girl, all posing standing in front of a painted backdrop and wearing full regalia. Identified ...
Photograph

Isham Family

Date: 1898
Description: Ira Robinson Isham family at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation. From left to right: Isham's son-in-law, Isham, his daughter, and Indian medicine m...
Photograph

Shawano Cheerleaders Wearing Indian Headdresses

Date: 03 14 1957
Description: Six cheerleaders standing in a row. Each of the girls has a letter "S" sewn on the front of their sweaters and are wearing (Sioux) Native American "colorfu...
Postcard

First Peace Council ever Held between Chippewas and Siouxs

Date: 1896
Description: Colored postcard view of "Buffalo Bill" Cody center right in white coat and hat surrounded by Native Americans in traditional garb, military personnel and ...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Plan of the Defences of the Western & North-Western Frontier

Date: 1837
Description: This map shows planned military posts/depots, barracks, rivers, lakes, roads, existing forts, and land assigned to various Indian tribes. Arkansas, Illinoi...
Map or Atlas

Neenába's Map : line on the Red Cedar Fork

Date: 1831
Description: This map was drawn by a Chippewa leader and shows the boundary lines between the Chippewa and Sioux territories and a saw-mill built by settlers without pe...

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