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Students of Santee Normal Training School

Students at Santee Normal Training School, Nebraska, ca. 1900. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) attended the school in the 1880s.

Red Lake Indian Forest

Entrance to the Red Lake Indian Forest. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, June 4, 1933.

Ojibwe family at Red Lake

An Ojibwe family at their home on the Red Lake Reservation, ca. 1930.

KaKay Nodin

Gabe-noodin (Perpetual Wind, sometimes spelled phonetically as Gay-boy-no-din), a leader of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe), ca. 1900.

Ojibwe family

Ojibwe family near present-day Brainerd, 1866. Forms part of Reserve Album 52, "Views of Northwest scenes: Views from Dakota Territory, Wisconsin, Fort Garry, Canada and Minnesota.
1866."

Fort Snelling, Pike Island, and Sibley Historic Site, ca. 1840

The intersection of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers (Bdote), including Fort Snelling and Pike Island (Wita Tanka). The Sibley Historic Site is in the center foreground. Oil-on-canvas painting by Edward Kirkbride Thomas, ca. 1840.

Interpreters at Snake River Fur Post

Voyageur interpreters at Snake River Fur Post (called North West Fur Post at the time), ca. 1975. Pictured are (left to right) a grandson of Gene Dunckley; Gene Dunckley (standing); and Pete Dunckley.

Snake River Fur Post

For a single trading season between the fall of 1804 and the spring of 1805, the Snake River Fur Post was an epicenter of the Upper Mississippi fur trade. The stockaded structure, supervised by veteran trader John Sayer, was a place where employees of the North West Fur Company came together with Ojibwe and Metis hunters and trappers. The Minnesota Historical Society rebuilt the post’s buildings and opened them as a historic site in 1970.

Dakota Elder Joe Williams Relates a Traditional Story, Nape

Dakota Elder Joe Williams (Sisseton Wahpeton) relates a traditional story, nape, or handprint, and its meaning to Native people. The Jeffers Petroglyphs Historic Site is arguably one of the most significant historic and cultural sites of its kind in the world. Its continued use over 9,000 years attests to its importance in traditional Indigenous cultures.

Bellanger, Pat (1943–2015)

Pat Bellanger was an Ojibwe activist and a cofounder of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who spent over fifty years fighting for Indigenous rights on a national and local level. Though she often escaped the public eye, her work survives through her children and community, the attendees of survival schools, and the children protected by the Indian Child Welfare Act (1978).

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