Detail view of a copy of a map made in 1688 by Jean-Baptiste Louis Franquelin. Text surrounding Lake Mille Lacs (at center left, labelled here as Lac de Buade) identifies the area as inhabited by the "Issatis," or Santee Dakota. The map provides some of the earliest extant textual evidence of a Dakota community at Lake Mille Lacs.

Photograph of a group of Santee Dakota taken at Prairie Island c.1915.

Pair of sinew-sewn leather moccasins with a rawhide sole. Made by Dakota Indians in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

The Dakota chief Black Hawk, Green Cloud, and family members photographed by T.W. Ingersoll c.1900.

Buffalo robe painted with human figures, horses, and buffalo. Made by Dakota people during the late nineteenth century.

Buffalo robe painted with human figures, horses, and buffalo. Made by Dakota during the late nineteenth century.

Dakota people in tipis in a concentration camp on the Minnesota River below Fort Snelling, ca.1863. Photograph by Benjamin Franklin Upton.

Dakota bag featuring beadwork and quillwork created no earlier than 1856.

Dakota woman’s hide and wool dress, c.1850s.

Dakota summer lodge, ca. 1846–1848. Watercolor painting by Seth Eastman.