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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

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...
Photograph

Chippewa Woman

Date: 1900
Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman with child.
Photograph

Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
Photograph

Chippewa Group

Date: 1908
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) group wearing traditional clothing photographed by A.J. Kingsbury, a photographer who produced many "documentary" postcards. This image...
Photograph

Ojibwa Chief Obtossaway

Date: 1903
Description: Hand-colored postcard depicting Ojibwa Chief Obtossaway. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first cur...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Portrait of Bashicta-Nogueb

Date: 02 1901
Description: Studio portrait of Bashicta-Nogueb (High Up In The Sky), called Charles Sucker, in partial native dress with ornaments. Part of Algonquian and Chippewa Tri...
Photograph

Portrait of Tabaiwatang or De-Bwawen-Dunk

Date: 02 1901
Description: Studio portrait of Tabaiwatang or De-Bwawen-Dunk (Sound of Eating), called John, in partial native dress with ornaments and fan. Part of Algonquian and Chi...
Photograph

Lac Courte Oreilles Village Exhibit

Date: 1906
Description: The Lac Courte Oreilles village sponsored by the Wisconsin Archaeological Society at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Several members of the society are incl...
Photograph

Logging on a Reservation

Date: 1909
Description: A group of Native American Indian loggers pose on piles of logs at the Courtes Oreilles Reservation.
Photograph

Chippewa Indians near a Stretched Bear Hide

Date: 1907
Description: View towards a man standing with two children, a boy wearing a hat and suspenders, and a girl wearing a dress. They are standing in front of a bear hide st...
Photograph

Chippewa Woman Cooking Bear Meat

Date: 1907
Description: Chippewa woman standing outdoors stirring one of three pots suspended over an open fire.
Postcard

Qua-bas-er-o-qua

Date: 1908
Description: Photographic postcard of Qua-bas-er-o-qua, an Ojibwa (Chippewa) woman. She is seated on the ground in a low woven chair, and is wearing traditional clothin...
Photograph

Indians at Tamarack

Date: 1907
Description: Two people, probably Ojibway, posing together wearing hats and elaborately beaded garments, with blouses with puffy sleeves. They are standing in front of ...
Photograph

"Posking" (Chippewa)

Date: 10 15 1907
Description: Outdoor portrait of a man standing outside the open door of a wooden home with one hand on his hip, and in his other hand holding what may be a pipe restin...
Postcard

Chief "McSauby"

Date: 1908
Description: Quarter-length portrait of a man wearing a hat. Caption reads: "Chief 'McSauby', Charlevoix, Mich."

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