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| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Pouch obtained from an Oneida Indian at the 1997 Milwaukee River Front Pow-Wow. (Museum object #1999.40.1) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Reebok baby shoes beaded by Ho-Chunk artist Linda Lucero, c. 1990. (Museum object #1993.102A-B) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Maple sugar container made by missionary Rosalie Dousman, mid-1800s. (Museum object #1969.419) |
| A Bizarre Story of Land Prospecting Gone Awry |
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| Read the amazing story of a man who watched his potential 10,000-square-mile northern Wisconsin empire disappear into thin air. |
| Buffalo and O-Sho-Ga Protest Forced Removal |
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| Discover how two Ojibwe chiefs traveled to Washington DC and negotiated with President Millard Fillmore to keep rights to their land. |
| An Unreliable Text and Other Evidence |
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| Wisconsin History books teach that Jean Nicolet was the first white person to reach the state, but he may have been the second. |
| A Warrior Prepared to Die is Disappointed |
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| Discover the story of a Ho-Chunk warrior who surrenders and is grieved at receiving a fair trial. |
| Some Interesting Stories of the Winnebago Chief |
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| Read about Ho-Chunk Chief Dandy's interesting and friendly interactions with white settlers in Wisconsin, even while he was a fugitive. |
| The Clash of U.S Law and Indian Legal Tradition |
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| Learn how the trial of Menominee Chief Oshkosh, one of the most famous in Wisconsin history, pitted Indian traditional justice against white man's law. |
| A People and Their Structures |
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| Learn how the Effigy Mounds communities that transformed Native American life |
| The History of Paleo-Indians in Wisconsin |
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| Learn about the Paleo-Indians who first inhabited the Wisconsin territory and the archaeological excavations that have revealed their culture. |
| New Tribes Brought to Wisconsin by French Commerce |
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| Learn how contact with Europeans, the fur trade and warfare among their tribes drove many Indians to the Wisconsin territory in the 17th century. |
| The Genesis of Modern Wisconsin |
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| Discovery the history of the Woodland and Middle Mississippean Indian cultures and their relationship to modern Wisconsin. |
| How Native Life was Transformed |
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| Discover how white contact disrupted and transformed Indian life in Wisconsin in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
| When the Beaver was King |
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| Discover how beavers transformed Wisconsin's economy in the 1650s for the next two centuries. |
| Military Outposts in Wisconsin |
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| Read how American forts were established and settlement increased in Wisconsin after the War of 1812. |
| How the Natives Lost Their Land |
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| Learn about the many treaties between the United States government and native tribes. |
| How the University was Began |
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| Discover how the lack of educational opportunities in Wisconsin helped create the University of Wisconsin. |
| Assimilation |
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| Discover how the government tried to assimilate Germans and Indians into their culture. |
| The Changing Status of the Native Americans |
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| Read about Wisconsin's Indian tribes and their changing legal status throughout the 20th century. |
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