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Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe
1835
Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1825).
Waa-ba-shaw
1835
Waa-ba-shaw, a celebrated Sioux Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1825).
Me-Te-A, a Pottawatimie Chief
1849
Head and shoulders portrait of Metea, a Chief of the Potawatomi Tribe. He spoke against land cessions during the 1821 treaty negotiations.
Red Bird (Zitkaduta)
1848
Redbird, a Winnebago Indian, following his surrender after an attack on Prairie du Chien in 1827.
Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre
1832
Funeral of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre.
