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Menominee County Economic Development

Date: 10 1968
Description: During a visit to Menominee County, Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall and Senator Gaylord Nelson learn about a proposed resort complex.
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Indian Fire Dance

Date: 1952
Description: A Native American man performing a fire dance at Camp Decorah.
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Indian Protest

Date: 04 26 1971
Description: Led by James White, president of DRUMS, members of the organization and sympathizers staged a protest Monday at the First Wisconsin National Bank, 743 N. W...
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Ethel Grandin and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: Three or more pioneer women and an older man in buckskin look in horror at a threat--indians?--that is beyond the frame of the photograph in this scene sti...
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Group Posed with Logs

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Description: Group of twelve men and one woman posed with a load of logs waiting to be pulled by two horses harnessed to a sled. Several of the men hold cant hooks or p...
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Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 1975
Description: Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb...
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Lillian St. Cyr

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Lillian St. Cyr standing and posing in a traditional Native American beaded buckskin dress and floor length headdress. St. Cyr, also known as Red Wing, was...
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Lillian St. Cyr Sewing a Headdress

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Lillian St. Cyr working on a headdress. The headdress has a beaded headband with feathers attached to it. She is wearing a traditional Native American bead...
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"Ramona" set photograph

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Description: Photograph of men, dressed as Native Americans, on horseback for the 1928 film "Ramona". The men and horses are dominated by a large tree on the left and ...
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Irene Castle in American Indian Dance Costume

Date: 1914
Description: Full-length studio portrait of the dancer Irene Castle in an American Indian costume with many feathers. It is autographed "Sincerely Yours, Irene Castle."
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"The Goddess of Lost Lake" Publicity Still

Date: 1918
Description: Publicity still from the silent film "The Goddess of Lost Lake," featuring Monte Blue playing an Indian chief.
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Publicity Still from "The Young Rajah"

Date: 1922
Description: Rudolph Valentino poses wearing very little but an elaborate breechcloth decorated with pearls for his role as the Maharajah of Dharmagar in "The Young Raj...
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"The Goddess of Lost Lake" scene still

Date: 1918
Description: Movie still from the Hodkinson silent film "The Goddess of Lost Lake," featuring Monte Blue as "an Indian prince," according to the caption.
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Drummers at Pow Wow

Date: 08 07 1967
Description: Harry Funmaker (left) of Wisconsin Dells, and Ray Tahawah of Lawton, Oklahoma, drumming. A crowd of young people is in the background.
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Marion Davies and a host of extras in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: Marion Davies, costumed as an East Indian princess, sits enthroned at the back of a lavishly decorated set surrounded by a crowd of worshipful soldiers, da...
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Tsuru Aoki in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: The Indian princess Janira (played by Japanese actress Tsuru Aoki) is seated on a raised platform on the left. In front of her are four dancing girls and a...
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Vi Teeples and her Eden Point, by Lake Arbutus

Date: 1986
Description: Painting of a woman standing on a beach and holding a spear point in her hand. In the sand near her is a spear, several arrowheads, and a bag. She is weari...
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Henry Woodruff, Rhea Mitchell, and Tsuru Aoki in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: In this scene still for the silent drama "The Beckoning Flame," the Indian colonial administrator Harry Dickson (played by Henry Woodruff) and his English ...
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Lenore Ulric as Wetona

Date: 1916
Description: Lenore Ulric draws her bow crouched on a papier-mâché boulder. She starred as Wetona in the 1916 Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona...
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Full-Length Portrait of Lenore Ulric in Character as Wetona

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity still of Lenore Ulric as Wetona in the Frohman-Belasco Broadway production The Heart of Wetona which opened at the Lyceum Theatre in Febru...

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