Maude Kegg preparing wiigob (basswood) for basket making, Mille Lacs, 1947. Photo by Monroe P. Killy.

Maude Kegg at Mille Lacs, undated. Photo by Monroe P. Killy.

Ta Oyate Duta, also called Little Crow, in 1862. He was a leader of the Mdewakanton Dakota people during the US-Dakota War of 1862. Ta Oyate Duta means "His Red Nation," but he was known as Little Crow because of a mistranslation by Europeans of his grandfather's name, Ċetaŋ Wakuwa Mani (Hawk that Chases Walking).

Snana Good Thunder (Maggie Brass, left) and Mary E. Schwandt Schmidt (Mrs. William, right), 1899. Photo by Shepherd Photo Studio.

Postcard advertising Jim Northrup’s play Rez Road Follies, which was performed at the Illusion Theater, May 18–June 4, 1995. The back of the postcard includes a description of the play, performance schedule, price list and theater information. Northrup, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, is from Minnesota.

Cover art of Walking the Rez Road (Voyageur Press, 1993), by Jim Northrup.

Cover art of The Rez Road Follies, by Jim Northrup (Kodansha International, 1997).

Cover art of Jim Northrup’s Days of Obsidian Days of Grace (Poetry Harbor, 1994).

Cover art for Jim Northrup’s Anishinaabe Syndicated (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011).

Jim Northrup and Margaret Noodin in Sawyer, Minnesota, ca. 2011. Photo by Ivy Vainio. Used with the permission of Ivy Vainio.