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| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492. |
| Date: | 1827 |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of Key-Way-No-Wut or Going Cloud, the war chief of the Lac du Flambeau band of Chippewa smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of young Native-American men dressed in traditional clothing standing around an International R-Line truck. The young men are with a small... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Dr. War Eagle shoots at a target using a bow and arrow at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Withertail, a Sioux Chief, at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. He is sitting outdoors in front of a tipi. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) men with canoes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Norb Bybee shoots a self-portrait with his camera of petroglyphs that are carved in the face of a rock shelter near Gullikson's Glen. |
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| Description: | Members of the Menominee tribe pose during the Corpus Christi celebration, possibly held at the Keshena chapel. Pictured are, from left to right, Clara Chi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A totem pole erected in 1927 in honor of the aboriginal inhabitants of Wisconsin. Potawatomi chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados (1851-November 27, 1930), an ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Little Plume with his son Yellow Kidney occupies the position of honor, the space at the rear opposite the entrance. The pictu... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and... |
| Date: | 10 07 1934 |
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| Description: | James Jacco, Red Cliff Chippewa, and William Webster, Odanah Chippewa, competing in a lacrosse game. |
| Date: | 10 05 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster for an American Indian Pow-Wow, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Stock Pavillion [sic], October 10, including a coalition of nativ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | An illustration of an Indian prophet standing by his lodge, which has symbols drawn on and floating above it. Others are seated, watching him. Two persons ... |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of twelve Ho-Chunk women and girls posing standing and sitting in front of several trees, possibly at a powwow. They are all wearing many ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of four Ho-Chunk men posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. They are sitting around a table on which is sitting two packages wrappe... |
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| Description: | Copy photograph of five Ho-Chunk men posing standing outside tents, possibly at a powwow. They are dressed in full regalia, including headdresses, bandolee... |
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| Description: | Unidentified Ho-Chunk women sitting outside of a Medicine Lodge, whose sides are rolled up to allow airflow. Only members of the Medicine Lodge were allowe... |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk women are sitting wrapped in shawls in a stand of trees. A dog is sitting with them. There is a group of horses and a wagon in the background. Pro... |
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