Peoples of the Twilight

Peoples of the Twilight European Views on Native Minnesota, 1823-1862

Breaking New Ground, Peoples of the Twilight brings together forty-two little-known drawings by European artists (Johann Baptist Wengler, Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Hoeffler, and Franz Holzlhuber), a daguerreotype, and color photographs for forty artifacts collected by European travelers to illustrate aspects of the lifeways of the Dakota, Chippewa, and Winnebago peoples prior to the Indian Wars of 1862.
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