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Red Bird (Zitkaduta)



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Title: Red Bird (Zitkaduta)
Description: Redbird, a Winnebago Indian, following his surrender after an attack on Prairie du Chien in 1827. .
Image ID: 3911
Creation
Date: 		1848 ca.
Creator
Name: 		McKenney, Thomas and Hall, James
Collection
Name: 		Rare Books
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		McKenney and Michigan Governor Lewis Cass negotiated the surrender, which prevented the outbreak of a larger war by promising not to place Red Bird and his party in irons
Subjects: Ho Chunk Indians
 

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