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Meskawki Lodge
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Traditional house form utilized by Woodland Indians of the Great Lakes Region. Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa. 1905.
Local Indian Traditions
Multi-Page Item | 7 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Milo Custer's 1914 account of local indian traditions (7 pages).
Address to the Farmers
Multi-Page Item | 12 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An Address to the Farmers of Great Britain: with an Essay on the Prairies of the Western Country: by Morris Birkbeck: to which is amended The Constitution of the State of Illinois, London, 1822. This address is written from Wanborough, Illinois, March 31, 1822. Published in London by J. Ridgway, 1822.
Cahokia Village
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Winter scene at Cahokia from a lithograph by J. S. Wild, published in 1841. Horses roam freely in the Commons. A couple in a sleigh are pulled by a horse. Another couple walks in the snow, the woman keeping her hands warm in a muff, and the man by shoving his hands in his pockets. Two children play in the distance. ...
The Coureur de Bois and the Indian
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A fur trader stands by a birch bark canoe and shakes the hand of an Indian. A second fur trader is seated in the canoe.