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Wisconsin Powwows

View a listing of upcoming Wisconsin powwows and read some helpful tips for first-timers and non-Natives.
Feature Story

Ada Deer

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Ada Deer, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Ada Deer Receives 2007 'Robert and Belle Case La Follette Award for Distinction in Public Service'

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Nationally recognized social worker, community organizer, who led the successful campaign to restore federal recognition of the Menominee Tribe.
Classroom Material

How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century: Education Resource for Grade Band 9-12

Poetry activities related to Wisconsin Historical Society Press book, "How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century" by Louis V. Clark III
How to Be an Indian in the 21st Century: Poetry Activities for 9th through 12th grade
Classroom Material

Father Jacques Marquette, 1673

Use the 1673 journal of Father Jacques Marquette to introduce students to the early exploration of Wisconsin
Classroom Material

Indian Nations of Wisconsin, 2nd Edition

Teaching Materials
Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin."
Classroom Material

Native People of Wisconsin Interactive Resource

Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin'
Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom.
Painting

Chief Souligny

Date: 
Description: Painted portrait of Souligny, a chief of the Menominees. He is depicted wearing a James Madison Peace Medal.
Painting

The Landing of Jean Nicolet

Date: 1904
Description: Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec...
Painting

Chief Oshkosh

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Description: Chief Oshkosh, (1795-) August 29, 1858, Menomonee Indian chief.
Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Print

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 (...
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
Photograph

Menominee Indian Basket Maker and Child

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Description: Indian basket maker with her child.
Photograph

Aquanama and Paul Ackenebowa

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Menominee Indian chief Aquanama and Menominee Indian Paul Ackenebowa, seated, facing front, both wearing hats, coats and n...
Painting

Ma-ko-me-ta or Bear's Oil, a Monomonie (Menominee) Chief

Date: 1835
Description: Ma-ko-me-ta or Bear's Oil, a Monomonie (Menominee) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, sketched at the treaty of Green Bay (1827)...
Print

Indian Sugar Makers

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Description: Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers.
Print

Village of Folle-Avoines

Date: 1842
Description: A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ...
Photograph

Oshkosh Sign

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Description: Sign above the main entrance of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, which uses an illustration of Chief Oshkosh as part of its logo. The sign was installed there...

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