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Resource Description

Indian Language Manuscripts Guide

Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages.
Resource Description

American Indian Language Materials

Follow online links to rare American Indian language primary documents, including early dictionaries, textbooks, spelling books and firsthand accounts.
Classroom Material

Little Elk, 1829

Use the 1829 speech by Little Elk, Ho-Chunk orator, to learn more about Ho-Chunk views on Euro-American cultures
Classroom Material

Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 4 description and supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
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.
Drawing

Fort Washington

Date: 1790
Description: Fort Washington, built in 1789, where Cincinnati now stands.
Map or Atlas

Map of Calf Pasture on the Great or West River

Date: 1744
Description: A map of a plan of 16,500 acres of land.
Drawing

Plan of the Town of Clarksville

Date: 1780
Description: Hand-drawn plan for the layout of the town of Clarksville, bordering Mayfield Creek and Liberty Creek. Fort Jefferson is shown between the townsite and the...
Drawing

Plan of Ohio River

Date: 1780
Description: Drawn plan of Ohio River and area to the West.
Drawing

Clark's Illinois Grant

Date: 1780
Description: Plan for layout of 150,00 acres which make up Clark's Illinois Grant.
Manuscript

Letter of Gilbert Imlay

Date: 03 15 1783
Description: Letter written by Gilbert Imlay regarding Daniel Boone.
Manuscript

Letter to Daniel Boone

Date: 1786
Description: Body of a letter written by Gilbert Imlay to Colonel Daniel Boone.
Manuscript

Part Two of Letter to Daniel Boone

Date: 1786
Description: Letter written by Gilbert Imlay to Daniel Boone.
Map or Atlas

Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale

Date: 1745
Description: Zodiac as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.
Map or Atlas

Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe

Date: 1745
Description: Zodiac as seen from the Southern Hemisphere.
Print

A Man of Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 38. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
Print

A Woman of Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 39. Portrait from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
Print

A View of the Habitations in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
Print

The Inside of a House in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 42. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.

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