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Map of Indian Land Cessions

Date: 1899
Description: This color map, originally published in the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology's 18th annual report, shows the Indian land cessions in Wi...
Photograph

Ojibwa Herbalist

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Description: An Ojibwa herbalist prepares medicine and treats a patient. From the "Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology J.W. Powell Director 1885-1886" page 159.
Map or Atlas

Map of a Portion of the Indian Country

Date: 1835
Description: Constructed for the Topographical Bureau [Wash.], 1835. Scale: 16 miles to 1 inch. Map of a portion of the Indian country lying east and west of the Missis...
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Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1939
Description: This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ...
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Wisconsin Minor Civil Divisions, Towns

Date: 1941
Description: Wisconsin counties, towns, cities, and selected villages, as well as the Menominee Indian Reservation are identified on this U.S. Bureau of the Census map ...
Photograph

Menominee Indian "Garters"

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Description: Menominee Indian "garters" made of beads and yarn.
Photograph

Chippewa Valley Village

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Description: Winter view of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Valley village.
Photograph

Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation

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Description: Medicine man John King, his wife, grandchild, and family on the Lake Courte Oreilles Chippewa reservation near Couderay.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin 2

Date: 1899
Description: This map shows color coded and numbered regions of Indian land cessions. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan are labeled and other lakes and rivers are shown. ...
Photograph

Sioux Sun Dance

Date: 1874
Description: Copy photograph of a painting of a Sioux Sun Dance ritual. Painting by Jules Tavernier.
Map or Atlas

Ethnographical Map of the Indian Tribes of the United State A.D. 1600

Date: 1857
Description: Information depicting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States: collected and prepared under the direction of the Bur...
Print

Indian Sugar Makers

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Description: Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin 1

Date: 1899
Description: This map shows color coded and numbered regions of Indian land cessions. Lake Superior and Lake Michigan are labeled and other lakes and rivers are shown. ...
Photograph

Chief Washakie

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Description: Photograph of a portrait of Shoshone leader Chief Washakie, who is holding a pipe. Caption indicates it is "from a woodcut."
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1944
Description: This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ...
Photograph

Sun Dance Near Fort Washakie

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men posing together in front of a stand of trees. Caption reads: "Indian 'Sun Dance' near Fort Washakie, Wyo, 1900."
Photograph

Sitting Bull Oil Painting

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Description: Photograph of an oil painting of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, depicted standing and holding a rifle. Caption reads: "Oil painting of Sitting Bull b...
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

Indian Log Drivers

Date: 1899
Description: View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River.
Photograph

Apache Scouts for 6th Cavalry

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Description: Copy photograph of several young men posing with rifles. Caption reads: "Apache Indian scouts on duty with the 6th Cavalry at Fort Wingate. New Mexico."

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