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Line Creek Park
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Description
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Photos, maps, and information on Line Creek Park in the Platte County section of Kansas City North, Missouri (at 5700 Northwest Waukomis Drive), established in 1967 as an archaeological preserve for an ancient campsite that now [2001] is listed on the National Register of Historic Places." Description of the Hopewell Indians' settlements there "from about 200 B. C. to A. D. 500."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Wyandotte Indians
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Description
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Material pertaining to the Wyandotte Indian tribe, early settlers of the Kansas City area.
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Vertical File
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Art Museum Gets a Major Gift
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Description
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Morton and Estelle Sosland have made a gift of about 200 "rare and important objects of Northwest Coast art" to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Gaylord Torrence, curator of American Indian art, said that the gift fills in one of the weakest of the regional collections.
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Date
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2009-10-23
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Wet/Dry Routes Chapter Installs Battle of Coon Creek Interpretive Marker
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Description
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Brief article reporting the 2005 placement of a commemorative marker near the location of the "Battle of Coon Creek." This altercation between Native Americans and Santa Fe Trail freighters occurred on June 18, 1848 near the Arkansas River and present-day Kinsley, Kansas.
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Date
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2005-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Photo of Delware Agency
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Description
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Photograph of the Delware Indian Agency near Stony Point in Wyandotte County, Kansas. The building was built in 1830, and the photograph was shot in 1938.
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Date
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1905-06-26
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
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Description
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Photographic print on 4" x 8" cardboard mount of an unidentfied group of Native Americans and white men with their backs facing the camera. The top of a tipi can be seen in the distance. It is likely the subjects are watching a ceremony of some sort.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Unidentifed Group of Indians and White Men
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Description
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Photographic print on 5" x 8" cardboard mount of an unidentfied group of Native Americans and white men with their backs facing the camera. It is likely their a watching a ceremony of some sort.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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101 Ranch Real Wild West Show - Season 1915
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Description
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Group portrait of performers of the 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show that visited Kansas City and performed at 17th Street and Indiana Avenue April 25-27, 1915.
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Date
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1915-04
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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101 Ranch Real Wild West Show
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Description
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Group portrait of performers of the 101 Ranch Real Wild West Show that visited Kansas City and performed at 17th Street and Indiana Avenue April 25-27, 1915.
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Date
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1915-04
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Native American Dance
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Description
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Distant view of Native Americans in traditional costume performing dance.
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Date
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1950
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Aboriginal America East of the Mississippi
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Description
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Map, apparently taken from a book, showing locations in eastern U.S. of the following tribes: Abnaki, Pequot, Narraganset, Mohegan,Delaware (Lenni Lenape), Nanticoke, Pohawtan, Tuscarora, Woccon, Catawba, Cherokee, Yuchi (Uchee), Creek (Muscogee), Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez, Shawnee, Dakota, Illinois, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Miami, Erie, Andaste, Seneca, Cayuga, Onandaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Wyandot (Huron), Ottawa, Menominee, Ojibwa (Chippewa).
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Route of Chief Joseph and Major Indian Tribes
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Description
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Two maps are included. One shows Chief Joseph's route toward Canada in 1877; the other shows major Indian tribes on an outline map of the United States.
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Date
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1975
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views, Photograph 05
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Description
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Photograph five of twenty-four in Collection of Oklahoma Indian and Cowboy Views by William S. Prettyman and George B. Cornish. It is titled "Pawnee Indians, Located 70 Miles south of Arkansas City" and shows four Pawnee females (two with infants) in front of a tipi. The elder woman is curing a hide.
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Date
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1889~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, Cavalry Soldiers
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Description
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Two rows of soldiers on horseback, and two riders out front surveying the landscape.
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, View of Army Camp
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Description
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Distant view of an army camp. Groups of soldiers can be seen standing in formation and a church and other buildings are in view in the distance.
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, Indian Camp
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Description
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Encampment scene showing a group of Indians sitting and two soldiers on horseback.
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Date
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1890~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Wounded Knee, Gathering up the Dead
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Description
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Three workers loading the frozen bodies of Sioux dead into a wagon. Soldiers on horseback are looking upon the scene from atop a hill.
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Date
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1891~
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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P23 Native American/Western Photograph Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains over over 140 glass plate negatives, cabinet cards, and assorted prints. The images are primarily of Native American peoples, cowboys, and "Boomer" settlers in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) during the late-1880s through the early-1900s. The principal tribes represented include the Ponca, Kiowa, Comanche, Sac and Fox, Otoe, Pawnee and Apache. Many of the images were taken by prominent western photographers of the period including Thomas Croft, William S. Prettyman, George Cornish, and William E. Irwin. There are also fifteen photographs of Sioux Indians and U.S. soldiers taken by the Northwestern Photo Company during the 1890/91 conflict at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
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Date
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1880~/1901~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Correct Map of Oklahoma and Indian Territories
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Description
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Map of Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. Railroad lines, counties, and Indian jurisdictions (Osage, Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache) are shown. The following Indian nations are shown in Indian Territory: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek.
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Date
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1901~
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Object Type
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Map
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