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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian deer hunt on snow shoes. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk performers gathered behind a drum and Winnebago baskets at the 1908 Homecoming. Standing from the left are Jim Swallow (MaPaZoeRayKeKah), William ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the... |
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| Description: | An unidentified man dancing for a group of onlookers in Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. He is wearing a Sioux-style eagle feather... |
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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian cemetery, Lake Vieux Desert. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk Eagle Dance. Two Ho-Chunk men dance in front of two drummers. A group of Ho-Chunk sit on a bench on the right. Tepee in the background. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall... |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk Eagle Dance. Two dancers crouch in front of two men with drums. Ho-Chunk men and women sit on a bench at right. Tepee in back. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four men kneel in a square next to poles bearing feather headdresses. A flute player and a man with a rattle st... |
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| Description: | Man posing by a gate in the Red Cliff Indian Reservation cemetery. |
| Date: | 05 25 1926 |
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| Description: | Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of Chippewa (Ojibwa) girls in white western clothing and paper feathered headdresses for a celebration commemorating the return of 80 Native Americ... |
| Date: | 07 1894 |
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| Description: | A Ponca Indian Sundance. The participants are lined up in the grass. |
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| Description: | An Osage woman prepares to be married to the corn. A man leads her horse. |
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| Description: | Little girl under the "Aztalan Mound Park" sign, in a field. Another person stands in the background on one of the mounds. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Sioux give away horses at the Rosebud Agency. A large group of people are watching from a shelter on the left covered with branches. |
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| Description: | Indian dancers on a platform, with drummers in the rear, at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon. |
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| Description: | Native American Daniel Cochia, master of ceremonies at the He-he celebration at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon, in full dress. |
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