Child dressed in regalia dancing at a Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community powwow. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, June 21, 1970.

Arlo Haase and Amos Owen dressed in regalia at a Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community powwow. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, June 1972.

A Red River cart at a Dakota family’s camp, ca. 1870.

Ojibwe with Red River carts near Fort Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada, ca. 1863.

Loom woven garters that originated in the area around Selkirk, Manitoba, and are possibly Ojibwe, Métis, or Cree, ca. 1820s.

This style of coat was popular with the Métis of the Red River Valley. This particular coat belonged to Alexander Ramsey and may have been brought back by him from an 1851 treaty signing. The coat is possibly Cree, Métis, or Ojibwe in origin.

Members of the Dakota treaty delegation in Washington, 1858. Included in the delegation are members of the Métis community: Antoine (Joseph) Campbell (standing second from left), Thomas A Robertson (standing second from left), and Nathaniel Brown (standing at right).

An unidentified Métis fur trader of Native American and French ancestry, ca. 1870.

Métis dance at Devil’s Lake, Dakota Territory, ca. 1870. Drawing by Corporal Louis Voelkerer, Company A, Thirty-first United States Infantry.

An eight-person mixed-blood Ojibwe family, including a baby, on the White Earth Reservation, ca. 1897.