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Pecatonica Battleground

Date: 1930
Description: Pecatonica Battleground.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1934
Description: View across field towards the Indian Agency House, built in 1832.
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Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
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Chief Geronimo

Date: 1908
Description: The Native American Chief Geronimo, prominent Native American leader and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache, riding in an automobile with three other me...
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Cemetery Visit

Date: 1958
Description: Local historian William F. Wolf visiting the Native American cemetery. In the background is a barn and a silo and other farm buildings.
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Pueblo Native American Living Quarters

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Description: View of the land around Pueblo living quarters; the quarters are a stone and mortar construction that rises to a central rectangular building.
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Mound at Trade Lake

Date: 1927
Description: Three men and two women sit on top of a mound near Trade Lake.
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Brotherton Lumberjacks

Date: 1925
Description: Chief Niles and other Brotherton men sawing logs.
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Menominee Indian Performer

Date: 1958
Description: The image shows a performer standing and holding a pipe. Member of the Peavey Falls group of dancers and musicians from the Menominee Indian Reservation in...
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Men and Effigy Mounds

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Description: A small group of men, some of them carrying bags, walk in a field among effigy mounds.
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Lacrosse Team

Date: 1930
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a Native American lacrosse team posing holding their sticks before a match. A man holding a drum is standing on the far left. Two...
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Charles Decorah

Date: 1925
Description: Charles Decorah, a Ho-Chunk Indian, broadcasting seeds oats over a tilled field. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap. There is a dog in the foreground on...
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Stock Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A handwritten sign identifies the "Shing-Wak Stock Farm, John B. Breselle (?) Prop., Dealer in Draft Horses." It also advertises "Green Mountain Seed Potat...
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Charlotte Buffalo

Date: 1920
Description: Mrs. Antoine Buffalo, Jr., posing in a field at the edge of a wood. She is a member of the Chippewa (Ojibwe) tribe, and a farmer. On the right are several ...
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Oneida Band

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Description: Group portrait of a band posing in a field with trees in the background. All the men are wearing uniforms and holding their instruments.

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