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Yellow Thunder Cairn

Date: 1909
Description: Rock cairn for Yellow Thunder, chief of the Winnebago.
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Family Camping

Date: 1925
Description: A Native American (possibly Ho-Chunk) family rests at their campsite under a large tree. There is a bucket suspended over a small campfire.
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Group Near Tent

Date: 1940
Description: Men in summer clothes stand in small groups outside of a large canvas tent. The men on the right wear badges with ribbons. In the background, a man in Nati...
Historical Essay

Ho-Chunk Eagle Feather Dance Staff

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Eagle feather dance staff used at 1933 World's Fair by Ho-Chunk dancers from the Wisconsin Dells. (Museum object #2001.49.1)
Historical Essay

Early Tourism and Wisconsin Dells

How One Family Helped Build the Modern Tourist Destination
Discover how Wisconsin Dells came to prominence as a Midwestern tourism institution.
Historical Essay

The Battle of Wisconsin Heights, 1832

Read about the desperate 1832 battle near Madison, WI, of the starving Sauk, Fox and Kickapoo Native Americans against the British and the Ho-Chunk.
Photograph

Smoke Smoke

Date: 1930
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of an elderly Native American man. He is wearing a work shirt; the handle of a cane is in the foreground. On the reverse is wri...
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Native American Woman

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified Native American woman, probably Ho Chunk, posing for a seated, waist-up stereograph portrait in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a ...
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Amphitheater at Stand Rock

Date: 1936
Description: An elevated view towards a Native American man wearing a feathered headdress and a young girl of European descent standing in front of a tepee on the stage...

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