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Indian Language Manuscripts Guide

Follow links to documents by missionaries, traders, Indian agents, linguists and anthropologists which help preserve more than 20 endangered languages.
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American Indian Language Materials

Follow online links to rare American Indian language primary documents, including early dictionaries, textbooks, spelling books and firsthand accounts.
Feature Story

Mathilde Anneke

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Mathilde Anneke; Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Classroom Material

Little Elk, 1829

Use the 1829 speech by Little Elk, Ho-Chunk orator, to learn more about Ho-Chunk views on Euro-American cultures
Classroom Material

Chapter 4: The Fur Trade Era: Exploration and Exchange

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 4 description and supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Classroom Material

Chapter 5: From Indian Lands to Territory and Statehood

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 5 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Classroom Material

Chapter 8: Lead, Soil, and Sawdust, 1820-1914

Supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Chapter 8 supplemental materials for the 4th-grade textbook, 'Wisconsin: Our State Our Story'
Classroom Material

Indian Nations of Wisconsin, 2nd Edition

Teaching Materials
Teaching materials for use with the 2nd Edition of Patty Lowe's "Indian Nations of Wisconsin."
Classroom Material

Native People of Wisconsin Interactive Resource

Supplemental teaching materials for 'Native People of Wisconsin'
Interactive whiteboard resources designed for use with Patty Loew's "Native People of Wisconsin" for the 4th grade classroom.
Painting

Isaac Winnesheek, Winnebago Chief

Date: 1829
Description: Watercolor miniature of Isaac Winnesheek, Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Chief.
Painting

Nils Otto Tank

Date: 1821
Description: Waist-up portrait of Nils Otto Tank.
Print

View of the Great Treaty Held at Prairie du Chien

Date: 09 1825
Description: Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov...
Map or Atlas

Expedition Map of Major S.H. Long

Date: 1823
Description: In 1823 U.S. Army major Stephen H. Long led an expedition of scientific, trade, and military investigation up the Mississippi River and the Red River of th...
Print

Nah-shaw-a-gaa, Or The White Dog's Son

Date: 1827
Description: Nah-shaw-a-gaa, or the White Dog's Son, a Pottawatomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, drawn at the Treaty of Gr...
Print

Pe-Che-Co, a Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Chief

Date: 1827
Description: Pe-Che-Co, Pottowattomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, sketched at the treaty of Massinnewa (1827).
Painting

Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes

Date: 1821
Description: Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes.
Painting

Indian Spearing Beaver

Date: 1821
Description: Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver.
Drawing

First Fort Crawford

Date: 10 1829
Description: Fort Crawford as drawn by Seth Eastman. People are in a canoe in the river in the foreground. Across the river is the fort, other buildings around the fort...
Print

Kitch-ee-i-aa-ba, or the Big Buck, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) Chief

Date: 1825
Description: Kitch-ee-i-aa-ba, or the Big Buck, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the treaty of Prarie du Chi...
Print

"Chippeway (Ojibwa) Squaws"

Date: 1826
Description: Portrait of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) women with their babies, originally titled "Chippeway Squaws." Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, p...

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