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Portrait of Chief Wah-wie-kum-ig at the Annual White Earth Celebration and Pow Wow, White Earth, Minnesota

Portrait of Chief Wah-wie-kum-ig at the Annual White Earth Celebration and Pow Wow, White Earth, Minnesota
Portrait of Chief Wah-wie-kum-ig, an Ojibwe elder. He is also identified as Wa-we-yay-cum-ig, or Round Earth, an Ojibwe opponent of U.S. efforts to move Mille Lacs Ojibwe to White Earth. He is wearing a beaded apron and bandolier bags and eagle feathers and is holding an ax. This snapshot by Stella Stocker is from her photograph album. Stocker, a musician and music educator, studied American Indian music among the Ojibwe people in Minnesota.
1916-06-14
2961-9 S3089 B1Vol1
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