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.

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 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."

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.

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.