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Indian Spearing Beaver

Date: 1821
Description: Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver.
Print

Key Way No Wut or Going Cloud

Date: 1827
Description: Lithographic portrait of Key-Way-No-Wut or Going Cloud, the war chief of the Lac du Flambeau band of Chippewa smoking a pipe.
Book or Pamphlet

Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1851
Description: Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin. One row of birds, animals and fish pictographs.
Book or Pamphlet

Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert

Date: 1851
Description: Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a...
Book or Pamphlet

Two Pictographs, Okundekund and Kakake-Ogwunaosh

Date: 1851
Description: Two pictographs: Pictograph C., Okundekund, and his Band of Ontonagon, Michigan, and Pictograph D., Kakake-Ogwunaosh, and his Band of the Head of the Wisc...
Book or Pamphlet

Symbolic Petition of the Chippewa Chiefs

Date: 1851
Description: This image was copied by artist Seth Eastman in 1849 and printed in Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's The History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Hist...
Photograph

Arbor with United States Flag

Date: 1895
Description: This arbor was erected for a celebration with the Ojibwe, who traveled from their reservation in northern Wisconsin to participate in the Winnebago-Chippew...
Photograph

Frisk Cloud Sitting on a Steer

Date: 1905
Description: Frisk Cloud (MauhHeTaChaEKah) is riding at cow at a powwow. Watching Frisk, left to right, are two unidentified men, Albert Thunder (CheNunkEToKaRaKah), Ge...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Women and Children near Wigwam and Teepee

Date: 1908
Description: A cattail mat–covered wigwam (ciiporoke) and a small teepee were set up in a mock Ho-Chunk village for the 1908 homecoming celebration.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk and European American Crowd at Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Groups of Ho-Chunk and non-Indians gathering on the streets of Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration.
Photograph

Women in the Temporary Ho-Chunk Village

Date: 1908
Description: A group of Ho-Chunk women wrapped in shawls gathering at the temporary Ho-Chunk village. Identified as the Homecoming Powwow at the intersection of Main an...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Group at Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: A group of performers taking a break from entertaining tourists. The man on the left is wearing a traditional Ho-Chunk beaded shirt, belt, and breechcloth ...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Powwow Police

Date: 1910
Description: Six Ho-Chunk men lined up for a group portrait at the powwow grounds. The men with sticks in their hands are members of the Bear Clan, who act as police fo...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder in Regalia

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (Hoonk Ha Ga Kah) (Son of [Wa Con Cha Kah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [We Hon Pe Kaw] Lucy Bea...
Photograph

Native American Game

Date: 1911
Description: Indians playing a game at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. "The man in the center is holding counting sticks. A constant drumming is kept up to make concentra...
Photograph

Indian Soldiers Homecoming

Date: 06 19 1919
Description: A gathering of Native American women, some holding flags, to welcome home soldiers returning from WWI on Corpus Christi Day. There are men in the backgroun...
Photograph

Green Corn Dance

Date: 1952
Description: Slightly elevated view of the performance at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. A group of men, women and children are performing the Green Corn Dance, movi...
Photograph

Hoop Dance

Date: 1955
Description: Tony White Cloud performs a Hoop Dance at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. He is dressed in Native American ceremonial clothing.

During its 78-year run ...

Photograph

Ceremonial Group Dance

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of Ho Chunk performing at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial at night. A group of men, women and children are dancing in a circle, wea...
Photograph

Hoop Dance

Date: 08 1968
Description: Spencer Lone Tree performing a Hoop Dance at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. He is dressed in Native American ceremonial clothing.

During its 78-year r...

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