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    An Online Exhibition

    ​In 2019, we highlighted two unique artifacts per month. Each artifact contributed to the story of America from the pre-Columbian period all the way through the lives and work of John and Juliette Kinzie in the 1830s.

    A Beaten Survivor of an Unseen World of Copper
    A Beaten Survivor of an Unseen World of Copper

    1

    A Reminder of Clashing Cultures
    A Reminder of Clashing Cultures

    2

    Making this Land Their Own: Colonial Civil Compacts
    Making this Land Their Own: Colonial Civil Compacts

    3

    Relics of a Struggle for Independence
    Relics of a Struggle for Independence

    4

    Personal Effects of an American-Made Artist
    Personal Effects of an American-Made Artist

    5

    The Northwest Ordinance: A New Era in Native Relations
    The Northwest Ordinance: A New Era in Native Relations

    6

    A War of Hard-Learned Lessons
    A War of Hard-Learned Lessons

    7

    Shattered Dreams and New Opportunity
    Shattered Dreams and New Opportunity

    8

    A Silver Family of Traders
    A Silver Family of Traders

    9

    Allies in Unrest
    Allies in Unrest

    10

    Miners, a Treaty, and Yellow Thunder
    Miners, a Treaty, and Yellow Thunder

    11

    Arrival on the Frontier
    Arrival on the Frontier

    12

    The Frontier: A Communication Novelty
    The Frontier: A Communication Novelty

    13

    Into the Harness
    Into the Harness

    14

    The "Davis"
    The "Davis"

    15

    To Chicago via Buffalo
    To Chicago via Buffalo

    16

    A Windy City Welcome
    A Windy City Welcome

    17

    Admiration and Apprehension
    Admiration and Apprehension

    18

    A Touch of Temperance
    A Touch of Temperance

    19

    An Annual Tradition
    An Annual Tradition

    20

    A Grim Spectacle
    A Grim Spectacle

    21

    Better Times: Expressions of Relief
    Better Times: Expressions of Relief

    22

    A Social Tradition
    A Social Tradition

    23

    New Beginnings
    New Beginnings

    24

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    Artifact Ambassadors 2019

    The Historic Indian Agency House

    1490 Agency House Road, Portage, WI 53901

    historicindianagencyhouse@gmail.com

    608.742.6362

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