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MENOMINEE
LAND
and
PEOPLE
Images of the past
A collection of vintage photographs.
An on-going project of respect and memories.
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LAND and PEOPLE |
School Children at the Indian School - Keshina |
Menominee Indian Fair TeePee display with Parfleches piled to the side of the entrance. |
Menominee
Medicine Woman
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 Family and guest (second from left) at the "Sugar Shack" during Maple sugar season. The guest is thought to be acclaimed Indian photographer Harmon Percy Marble |
 Woman and granddaughter dressed for Pow Wow . |
Menominee man and his guests. |
 Prominent women pose in formal attire before the baking hut. |
Portable housing for fair and ceremonial visits. |
 Elder in finery. This is thought to be the son of Chief Jim Crow. |
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Jim Crow "Last of the Menominee Blanket Chiefs" |
Chief Crow sits for a formal portrait in his last years. |
 Chief Crow and a guest, thought to be government Indian agent and acclaimed Indian photographer Harmon Percy Marble |
Chief Crow portrait holding his pipe. |
Wife of Chief Crow holding ceremonial rattle. |
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1915 - 1918 American Civil War and Spanish American War Veterans |
 Menominee War Veterans lead the Grand March |
 Menominee War Veterans march in their tribal finery. |
 Church Procession to the memorial grounds. |
 Decorated memorial to the Tribal Warrior Veterans |
 Parade of the school children, honoring Menominee Veterans of all wars. |
 Menominee Spanish American War Veteran |
 Menominee Civil War Veterans gather around a tired resting comrade. |
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Menominee Indian Fair TeePee display with Parfleches piled to the side of the entrance. |
 Indian Fair Dancers. The war bonnets are of the western tribes and were worn due to the tourist and Hollywood expectations of Indian appearance. |
Dance competition entrants mingle with others while awaiting their turns. |
Fair Dancers greet audience. |
 Members sit for a group photograph. |
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and Funeral |
Chief Crow shortly before his death in 1915.. |
 This was the funeral ceremony for Chief Jim Crow. There is the outer stockade circle, and an inner circle of bent saplings where the ceremony takes place surrounds the offerings. |
 Ceremony with shaking rattles, ritual singing, drumming and the burning of offerings beneath spirit bundles |
 Ceremonial circle passing the offerings |
 Mourners passing the offerings |
 Menominee burial ground |
 Shelter and mourners at the burial site.  |
 Menominee Mourners with the traditional ghost houses built over graves. |
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