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Book/Printed MaterialSome Wisconsin Indian conveyances, 1793-1836.
Wisconsin Indian conveyances "Deeds, leases, and treaties, executed by Wisconsin Indians prior to 1836 ... selected from the manuscripts in possession of this society, or ... copied from the books of the Brown County register…- Contributor: Thwaites, Reuben Gold - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Date: 1900-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialRobert Dickson, the Indian trader Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Cruikshank, E. A. (Ernest Alexander) - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Date: 1892-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCaptured by the Indians: reminiscences of pioneer life in Minnesota. This book is an account of Minnie Buce Carrigan's captivity among the Sioux after the 1862 uprising and her subsequent experience as an orphan. Carrigan emigrated with her German parents to Fox…- Contributor: Carrigan, Minnie Buce
- Date: 1912-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPapers of Indian agent Boyd, 1832.
Boyd papers Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "The extracts here given cover the period of the Black Hawk War, being the documentary history of the Stambaugh expedition."…- Contributor: Tanner, Herbert Battles - State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Boyd, George
- Date: 1892-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan: a grammar of their language, and personal … Blackbird (Mack-e-te-be-nessy) was an Ottawa chief's son who served as an official interpreter for the U.S. government and later as a postmaster while remaining active in Native American affairs as a teacher,…- Contributor: Blackbird, Andrew J.
- Date: 1887-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialWho discovered Itasca Lake? : letter of Wm. Morrison, an early Indian trader. Introduced by a letter from the author's brother, Allan Morrison. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Morrison, William - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPrairie du Chien, in 1811 : letter from Nicholas Boilvin, Indian agent, to William Eustis, Secretary … Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Boilvin, Nicholas - State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Eustis, William
- Date: 1888-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers: … This is the autobiographical account of an explorer, government administrator, and scholar whose researches into the language and customs of the Chippewa and other Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region…- Contributor: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1851-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTracks and trails; or, Incidents in the life of a Minnesota territorial pioneer,
Tracks and trails | Incidents in the life of a Minnesota territorial pioneer Tracks and Trails presents incidents in the life of a Minnesota pioneer and touches on many facets of frontier life in the second half of the nineteenth century. It depicts the settlers'…- Contributor: Dally, Nathan
- Date: 1931-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialOsawgenong, a Sac tradition "Mr. Johnston, a half-breed educated Chippewa, and brother of the first wife of Henry R. Schoolcraft, communicated this tradition from Grand Haven Bay, Lake Michigan, early in 1845, to the New York…- Contributor: State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Johnston, George
- Date: 1900-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Fox and Ojibwa War. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBattle of Lake Pokeguma : as narrated ry [sic] an eye witness Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield) - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialRunning the gantlet : a thrilling incident of early days at Fort Snelling. Reprinted from Annals of the Society, 1856. By Wm. J. Snelling. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Snelling, William Joseph - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1872-01-01
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ArticleThe Indians at the Time of Contact, 1600-1850 Native American cultures had occupied the Upper Midwest for centuries before whites arrived in the region. The invading whites were properly impressed by the thousands of burial mounds then to be found… -
Book/Printed MaterialSketch of Cutting Marsh Mr. Marsh was a missionary to the Stockbridge Indians for eighteen years. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also published separately by the Society as part…- Contributor: Chapin, John E. - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Date: 1900-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialDakota land and Dakota life Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield) - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Ojibways in Minnesota "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 8, 1897." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Gilfillan, J. A. (Joseph Alexander)
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialReminiscences, memoirs, and lectures of Monsignor A. Ravoux, V.G. Monsignor Augustin Ravoux (1815-1906) emigrated from France in 1838, responding to the plea of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dubuque, Iowa, for missionaries among the Indians. His first mission was at Prairie…- Contributor: Ravoux, A. (Augustin)
- Date: 1890-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCivilization and Christianization of the Ojibways in Minnesota "An address given before the Minnesota Historical Society, May 2, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Whipple, Henry Benjamin
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialNarratives of the Sioux war "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, September 11, 1911." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Satterlee, Marion P.
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA Sioux narrative of the outbreak in 1862, and of Sibley's expedition in 1863 "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, Dec. 14, 1903, by Mr. R.I. Holcombe, who has added several footnotes." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web…- Contributor: Renville, Gabriel - Minnesota Historical Society - Brown, Samuel J.
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCaptivity among the Sioux, August 18 to September 26, 1862 "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, November 14, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - White, N. D.
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe treaty of Traverse des Sioux in 1851 : under Governor Alexander Ramsey, with notes of … Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Hughes, Thomas
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of the Ojibways : based upon traditions and oral statements Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.- Contributor: Warren, William W. (William Whipple) - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1885-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMemoirs : historical and edifying, of a missionary apostolic of the order of Saint Dominic among … Born and educated in Milan, Italy, Samuel Mazzuchelli (1806-1864) began his American ministry in 1828 at Mackinac Island, a center of the fur trade. Building churches, organizing schools, and preaching in both…- Contributor: Mazzuchelli, Samuel - Kennedy, Mary Benedicta - Ireland, John
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialWho were the first men? Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Williamson, Thomas S. (Thomas Smith)
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Sioux outbreak in the year 1862 : with notes of missionary work among the Sioux "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, October 9, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Adams, Moses N. (Moses Newton)
- Date: 1862-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialEarly Dakota trails and settlements at Centerville, Minn. "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 12, 1909." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Goodrich, Albert M.
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeck, Lake of the …
Major Long's second expedition William Hypolitus Keating (1799-1840), a professor of mineralogy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania (1822-1828), compiled this two-volume account of a scientific expedition in 1823 under the auspices of President Monroe's…- Contributor: Keating, William Hypolitus - Colhoun, James E. (James Edward) - Schweinitz, Lewis David Von - Say, Thomas - Lovell, Joseph - Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman)
- Date: 1824
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Book/Printed MaterialNarration of a friendly Sioux "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, December 13, 1897." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Brass, Maggie - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1901-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialReminiscences of the Little Crow uprising "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Committee, November 14, 1910." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Daniels, ASA Wilder
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBoyhood remembrances of life among the Dakotas and the massacre of 1862 "Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, March 14, 1910." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Humphrey, John Ames
- Date: 1862-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMissionary work at Red Wing, 1849 to 1852 "Presented at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 12, 1902." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Hancock, Joseph W. (Joseph Woods)
- Date: 1905-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialLetter-book of Thomas Forsyth, 1814-1818. Consists chiefly of correspondence between Forsyth and Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois Territory, concerning their dealings with the Indian tribes as allies. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress…- Contributor: Forsyth, Thomas - Illinois Territory. Governor ( : Edwards) - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Date: 1888-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialNarrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the actual source of this … This is an account by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) of his discovery of the Mississippi River's source, Lake Itasca, in 1832. Schoolcraft was an Indian agent for the region, and he assembled…- Contributor: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
- Date: 1834-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialAncient mounds and monuments. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Pond, Gideon H. (Gideon Hollister) - Minnesota Historical Society - Aiton, John - Riggs, Stephen Return
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe successive chiefs named Wabasha "An address ... at a meeting of the Old Settlers of Southeastern Minnesota, in Winona, February 12, 1906." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Minnesota Historical Society - Willson, Charles Cudworth
- Date: 1908-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Wisconsin Winnebagoes : an interview with Moses Paquette Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Paquette, Moses - Thwaites, Reuben Gold - State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Date: 1892-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialHistory of the Ojibways, and their connection with fur traders : based upon official and other … Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm.- Contributor: Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield) - Minnesota Historical Society
- Date: 1885-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialA canoe voyage up the Minnay Sotor; with an account of the lead and copper deposits … This detailed travelogue, the concluding part of a two-volume work written primarily for a British readership, discusses the United States' geological resources and offers critical observations about the manners and customs of…- Contributor: Featherstonhaugh, George William
- Date: 1847-01-01
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