Prairie land at Traverse des Sioux, the site of the signing of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, ca. 2010s. Photograph by John Cross courtesy of Minnesota Historical Society.

Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), 1919. Public domain. At the time the photograph was taken, Eastman was president of the Society of American Indians.

Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) in Dakota regalia, undated. Public domain.

Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), April 1897. Public domain.

George Morrison had an art career that spanned several decades and two continents. He taught at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design and studied abroad for several years. But he always came back to Minnesota’s North Shore. Producer Allison Herrera explores the world of one of Minnesota’ s most important artists.

When George Morrison was ten, he was living away from his Chippewa (Ojibwe) community in Minnesota’s Arrowhead, convalescing in a children’s hospital and working on his art. That child became one of America’s great post-war abstract artists. MN90's Britt Aamodt reports.

Elaine Goodale, undated. Public domain. Goodale married Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) in 1891.

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

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

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