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Le Sueur, Meridel (1900–1996)

For more than seventy years, the Minnesota-based writer and activist Meridel Le Sueur was a voice for oppressed peoples worldwide. Beginning in the 1920s, she championed the struggles of workers against the capitalist economy, the efforts of women to find their voices and their power, the rights of American Indians to their lands and their cultures, and environmentalist causes.

Oil on canvas painting of Dakota Indians in council, 1852. Painting by Seth Eastman

Dakota Council

Oil-on-canvas painting of Dakota men in council, 1852. Painting by Seth Eastman.

Painting of a Medicine Dance of the Dakota, 1849. Painting by Seth Eastman.

Dakota Medicine Dance

Oil-on-canvas painting of a camp of Dakota people participating in a medicine dance, ca. 1849. Painting by Seth Eastman.

Dakota woman scraping a hide

Graphite drawing of a Dakota woman processing a hide, c.1845. Drawing by Seth Eastman.

Harriet Bishop

Oil-on-canvas portrait of Harriet Bishop. Painted c.1880 by Andrew Falkenshield; based on an engraving of Bishop made in 1860.

Graphite drawing of Fort Snelling

Graphite drawing of Fort Snelling, 1863.

Sketch of Barracks at Fort Snelling

Sketch of soldiers’ barracks at Fort Snelling, c.1862, by Albert Colgrave.

Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills advertisement for Gold Medal Flour, Threshing Scene

Washburn-Crosby Flour Mills advertisement for Gold Medal Flour, Threshing Scene, c.1900.

Black and white photograph of Josias King standing in front of a bronze statue patterned after his likeness, 1903.

Josias King with statue

Josias R. King standing in front of the bronze statue of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument modeled after his likeness, November 20, 1903.

Sorel, Lower Canada

Town of Sorel, Lower Canada. Drawing by John Lambert. Image is from the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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