Lawrence Vizenor’s World War I registration card

Lawrence Vizenor’s World War I registration card

Lawrence Vizenor’s World War I registration card, 1918.

Lawrence Vizenor

Lawrence Vizenor

Lawrence Vizenor in his military uniform, ca. 1918. Printed in Daniel Nelson’s Becker County, Minnesota, in the World War, 1917-1918-1919 (Detroit Lakes, MN: Nelson, [1920?]).

Vizenor, Lawrence A. (1895‒1958)

Lawrence Alexious Vizenor (White Earth Ojibwe) left his home in Becker County, Minnesota, to enlist in the army and fight in World War I in 1918. Before mustering out the following year, he earned military honors and a promotion to corporal.

Sample card of glass seed beads

Sample card of glass seed beads

Sample card of glass seed beads sold at the Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post between 1920 and 1959.

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, 1935

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

Items for sale and trade inside Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1935.

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, 1935

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

Items for sale and trade inside Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1935.

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, 1935

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

Items for sale and trade inside Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1935.

Boat works at Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

Boat works at Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

Boat works at Mille Lacs Trading Post, Mille Lacs Lake, March 1931. Boat works at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation, 1931.

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, 1930

Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

Aerial view of Mille Lacs Trading Post at Vineland Bay, Mille Lacs Lake, circa 1930

O-gee-tup (Heavy Sitter), Harry Ayer, and Jeanette Ayer at Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

O-gee-tup (Heavy Sitter), Harry Ayer, and Jeanette Ayer at Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post

O-gee-tup standing with Harry and Jeanette Ayer at Mille Lacs Trading Post, ca. 1920.

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