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The Landing of Jean Nicolet

Date: 1904
Description: Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec...
Photograph

Chippewa Indian Deer Hunt

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Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian deer hunt on snow shoes.
Painting

Pocahontas

Date: 1832
Description: Portrait of Pocahontas.
Photograph

Brule River Battle

Date: 1845
Description: Illustration of Chippewa and Sioux Indians battling each other at the Brule River. Wood engraving from Armstrong, "Early Life Among The Indians."
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Print

View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
Painting

Battle of Bad Axe

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Description: Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832.
Print

Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch: A Mandan Village

Date: 1832
Description: Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan village with boats on the river in foreground.
Photograph

Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
Photograph

First Thanksgiving

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Description: Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America.
Photograph

Wisconsin Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians

Date: 1926
Description: Wisconsin Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians Olive, Oliver, and Willard LaMere in Wisconsin Dells (Kilbourn City).
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Ceremonial Performers

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Description: Ho-Chunk ceremonial performers posing on the sandy riverbank in front of a steamboat and rock formation.
Book or Pamphlet

Gathering Wild Rice

Date: 1884
Description: Three women in a canoe harvest wild rice.
Photograph

Boy Dressed in Native American Clothing

Date: 1925
Description: A boy is standing at the entrance to a teepee. He is dressed in Native American clothing, and is holding an axe.
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Farm Equipment Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Champion farm equipment, featuring a chromolithograph illustration of Native Americans ...
Photograph

Mr. Bearskin

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Description: Mr. Bearskin, a medicine man, at Lac du Flambeau sitting in front of of a wigwam covered with elm bark. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Ameri...
Photograph

Chippewa Settlement

Date: 1925
Description: Native American settlement. This photograph is thought to represent a view of the Chippewa (Ojibwa) settlement at Lac du Flameau. Probably photographed by ...
Photograph

Chippewa Medicine Man and His Family

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Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) medicine man John King, with his wife, grandchild, and family standing near a birch wigwam on the Lake Court Oreilles reservation. John K...
Photograph

Chippewa Woman Making Baskets

Date: 1925
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman preparing splints for basket making. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the fir...

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