Williamson home (Pajutazee Mission) near Yellow Medicine

Black and white photograph of Dakota Indians at Williamson home (Pajutazee Mission) near Yellow Medicine, 1862.

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Dakota people at the Williamson family home (Pajutazee Mission) near Yellow Medicine, 1862. Jane Williamson is the third from the right in this photograph taken on Sunday, August 17, 1862, the day before the US–Dakota War began. The photo was taken by visiting photographer Adrian Ebell. Pictured are, left to right: Margaret Poage Williamson, an unidentified child, Sarah Hopkins (Wanyahiyawin), Thomas Smith Williamson, an unidentified woman with a child, Robert Hopkins (Caskedan), Jane Williamson, Samuel Hopkins, and an identified woman.

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