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Photograph of lace makers working outdoors at the Leech Lake Reservation

Sybil Carter with instructors and lace makers at Leech Lake

Sybil Carter with instructors and lace makers at Leech Lake, ca.1896.

Sybil Carter Indian Lace Association

When Sybil Carter started her first lace-making classes at the White Earth Reservation of Ojibwe, she set the stage for a major economic enterprise. In 1904, friends of Carter organized the Sybil Carter Indian Lace Association to help ship and market lace made by women on reservations to East Coast consumers. The association provided a good source of income to Native women. It also, however, held stereotypical and negative views of them and excluded them from leadership roles.

Indian Land Cessions and Reservations to 1858

Native American Land Cessions and Reservations to 1858

Map of Native American Land Cessions and Reservations to 1858. In "Territorial Imperative: How Minnesota Became the 32nd State," by Rhoda Gilman (Making Minnesota Territory 1849–1858; Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1999).

Taoyateduta's (Little Crow IV) Village on the Mississippi

Taoyateduta's (Little Crow IV) village, c.1846–1848 on lands which were ceded to the United State by the Treaty of Mendota.

Dakota Leader Wahbasha's Village on the Mississippi River

Wabasha's village, c.1845 on lands which were ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Mendota.

Pilots Knob. Mouth of the St. Peters River

Pilot Knob Mouth of the St. Peters River

Pilot Knob, c.1846–1848, where the Treaty of Mendota was signed on August 5, 1851.

Taoyateduta (Little Crow IV)

Dakota Leader Taoyateduta (Little Crow IV) sketched at Traverse des Sioux, Minnesota Territory, in 1851 by artist Frank Blackwell Mayer.

Mendota from Fort Snelling

Oil-on-canvas painting depicting a view of Mendota from Fort Snelling, 1848. Painting by Seth Eastman.

Gale Family Library

Lace makers at Leech Lake

Sybil Carter