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Nah-shaw-a-gaa, Or The White Dog's Son

Date: 1827
Description: Nah-shaw-a-gaa, or the White Dog's Son, a Pottawatomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, drawn at the Treaty of Gr...
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Pe-Che-Co, a Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Chief

Date: 1827
Description: Pe-Che-Co, Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, sketched at the treaty of Massinnewa (1827).
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Kee-o-tuck-kee, a Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Chief

Date: 1835
Description: Kee-o-tuck-kee, a Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the treaty of Green Bay (1827).
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Wa-Baun-See

Date: 1838
Description: Wau-Baun-See, a hand-colored lithographic portrait of a Potawatamie Indian. This image from McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes," (1849-1850) ...
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Shab-eh-nay

Date: 1858
Description: A formal photographic portrait of the Potowatomi chief Shab-eh-nay (Shau-be-na, or Shabbona), who died in 1859. Shab-eh-nay was photographed shortly before...
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Important Potawatomi Men

Date: 1890
Description: A group of locally important Potawatomi Indians, apparently photographed in a government or law office at Escanaba, Michigan. Left to right standing are Fr...
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Peter the Interpreter

Date: 1867
Description: Peter, "the Interpreter," a studio portrait of a Potawatomie Indian in western attired taken by W. Snell in Washington, D.C., possibly on the occasion of ...
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Cha-co-to

Date: 1835
Description: Cha-co-to, a Pottawatomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, drawn at the Treaty of Massinnewa, Indiana (1827).
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Chat-o-nis-see

Date: 1835
Description: Chat-o-nis-see, Chief of the Pottowattomie (Potawatomi). Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, drawn at the Treaty of Fort Wayne (1827). H...
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Com-no-sa-qua

Date: 1835
Description: Com-no-sa-qua, a Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, was drawn at the Treaty of Missinnewa (1827).
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Me-no-quet

Date: 1835
Description: Me-no-quet, distinguished Chief of the Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Fo...
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Pach-e-po

Date: 1835
Description: Pach-e-po, Chief of the Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Tribe, son of Me-o-ne-me, a Chief who served with Gen. Harrison during the late war and was killed at th...
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Sun-a-get, Or Hard-Times

Date: 1835
Description: Sun-a-get, or Hard-Times, a Chief of the Pottawatomie (Potawatomi) Tribe, wearing a cape and horned headdress. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal ...
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Defeat of General Braddock

Date: 01 07 1855
Description: Sketch of the defeat of General Braddock during an ambush in the French and Indian War. Caption reads: "Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and India...
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Tapsy, Son of Blackhawk

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite studio portrait of man standing with a frilled-bodice, cloth hunting shirt with leather leggings. A wool plaid shawl is worn toga-style; an...
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Black Hawk Potawatomi

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite studio portrait of man posing on chair in front of a painted backdrop. He has a beard and is wearing a hat, jacket, and trousers.
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Me-Te-A, a Pottawatimie Chief

Date: 1849
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Metea, a Chief of the Potawatomi Tribe. He spoke against land cessions during the 1821 treaty negotiations.

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