The Dakota leader Good Thunder (seated) and his family. Photographed at the Lower Sioux Dakota community in Redwood County c.1900.

Good Thunder and his family

The Dakota leader Good Thunder (seated) and his family. Photographed at the Lower Sioux Dakota community in Redwood County c.1900.

Detail view of a map made in 1685 by Jean-Baptiste Louis Franquelin. Lake Mille Lacs (at center left) is labelled as "Lac des Sioux, suggesting that the area was known as a home for Dakota people as early as the seventeenth century.

1600s map with Lake Mille Lacs labelled Lake of the Sioux (Lac des Sioux)

Detail view of a map made in 1685 and 1686 by Jean-Baptiste Louis Franquelin. Lake Mille Lacs (at center left) is labelled as "Lac des Sioux" (Lake of the Sioux), suggesting that the area was known as a home for Dakota people as early as the seventeenth century.

Detail view of a map made in 185 by Jean-Baptiste Louis Franquelin. Text surrounding Lake Mille Lacs (at center left, labelled here as Lac de Buade) identifies the area as inhabited by the "Issatis," or Santee Dakota. The map provides some of the earliest extant textual evidence of a Dakota community at Lake Mille Lacs.

1600s map marking Lake Mille Lacs (Lac de Buade) as the home of the "Issatis" (Santee Dakota)

Detail view of a copy of a map made in 1688 by Jean-Baptiste Louis Franquelin. Text surrounding Lake Mille Lacs (at center left, labelled here as Lac de Buade) identifies the area as inhabited by the "Issatis," or Santee Dakota. The map provides some of the earliest extant textual evidence of a Dakota community at Lake Mille Lacs.

Photograph of a group of Santee Dakota taken at Prairie Island c.1915.

Santee Dakota at Prairie Island

Photograph of a group of Santee Dakota taken at Prairie Island c.1915.

Pair of sinew-sewn leather moccasins with a rawhide sole. Made by Dakota Indians in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

Beaded moccasins

Pair of sinew-sewn leather moccasins with a rawhide sole. Made by Dakota Indians in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

The Dakota chief Black Hawk, Green Cloud, and family members photographed by T.W. Ingersoll c.1900.

Chief Black Hawk and family

The Dakota chief Black Hawk, Green Cloud, and family members photographed by T.W. Ingersoll c.1900.

Buffalo robe painted with human figures, horses, and buffalo. Made by Dakota during the late nineteenth century.

Buffalo robe

Buffalo robe painted with human figures, horses, and buffalo. Made by Dakota people during the late nineteenth century.

Buffalo robe painted with human figures, horses, and buffalo. Made by Dakota during the late nineteenth century.

Buffalo robe

Buffalo robe painted with human figures, horses, and buffalo. Made by Dakota during the late nineteenth century.

Photograph of Dakota in a concentration camp on the Minnesota River below Fort Snelling. Photographed c.1863 by Benjamin Franklin Upton.

Dakota people in a concentration camp on the Minnesota River below Fort Snelling

Dakota people in tipis in a concentration camp on the Minnesota River below Fort Snelling, ca.1863. Photograph by Benjamin Franklin Upton.

Dakota bag featuring beadwork and quillwork created no earlier than 1856.

Dakota beaded and quilled bag

Dakota bag featuring beadwork and quillwork created no earlier than 1856.

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