Wheaties box featuring athlete and Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe, 2001. Thorpe (1887–1953) was a member of the Sauk and Meskwaki (Sac and Fox) Nation.

Detail from Minnesota Map No. 33 in Indian Land Cessions in the United States 1845-1893, Charles C. Royce, comp. (Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1899).

Solomon Wells (Tatanka Maza) and Mary Wells (Iha Ho Waste Win), Prairie Island. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, September 1950.

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).