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Creek Man

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Description: A Creek man of the house relaxes outside.
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Interior of a Pima Agency Dining Hall

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Description: A view of the interior of a Pima Agency dining hall. The wall reads, "There is no excellence without great labor."
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Females Sewing at the Pima Agency

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Description: Women and girls sewing in a room at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix.
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Omaha Sioux Dancers

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Description: Omaha Sioux Dancers at the Rosebud Agency. The two men are standing in front of a log cabin with a sod roof and wooden door.
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Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
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Nez Perce Woman

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Description: Jean, a Nez Perce woman, over 100 years old.
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Ojibwa Indian Apparel

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Description: Ojibwa Indian apparel and beadwork owned by A.T. Newman of Bloomer, Wisconsin.
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Cruelty of Iroquois

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Description: Illustration from Hennepin's "A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America". The illustration is titled "The Cruelty of The Savage Iroquois".
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Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1932
Description: The Indian Agency House near the site of Fort Winnebago. An interior view of the stairway.
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Lenore Ulric as Wetona

Date: 1916
Description: Lenore Ulric draws her bow crouched on a papier-mâché boulder. She starred as Wetona in the 1916 Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona...
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Full-Length Portrait of Lenore Ulric in Character as Wetona

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of Lenore Ulric as Wetona in the Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona which opened at the Lyceum Theatre in Febru...
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Studio Portrait of Native American Man

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Native American man posed standing next to a stuffed chair.
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Studio Portrait of Mrs. Snowball

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of an elderly Native American woman posed standing and wearing native dress, possibly the second Mrs. Luke Snowball.
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Third Fight with the Iroquois

Date: 1615
Description: Illustration of the Huron Indians and French explorers attacking an Iroquois fort near present day Fenner, New York. A wooden platform was constructed to f...
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Philip Gordon in a Headdress

Date: 1933
Description: A waist-up portrait of Father Philip Gordon in a headdress. The photograph is inscribed: "To our good friend Fred Holmes. Philip Gordon, June, 1933."
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Group of People with Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 1913
Description: Man wearing a suit and a bowler hat is demonstrating the machine to a group of men in traditional Native American costume. There are factory buildings in t...
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Man Showing Binder to Man at McCormick Works

Date: 1913
Description: Man in bowler hat demonstrating machine to a man dressed in traditional Native American costume. They are in the factory yard.
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Group of People with Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 1913
Description: Man wearing a suit and a bowler hat is demonstrating the machine to a group of men in traditional Native American costume. There are factory buildings in t...

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