Dakota Sioux playing a traditional ball game, similar to lacrosse, on a frozen river, while others look on. The village is visible in the distance. Engraving by Charles Burt after a painting by Seth Eastman, 1854. Eastman served in the US Army as a mapmak

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Dakota Sioux playing a traditional ball game, similar to lacrosse, on a frozen river, while others look on. The village is visible in the distance. Engraving by Charles Burt after a painting by Seth Eastman, 1854. Eastman served in the US Army as a mapmaker and illustrator. His drawings and paintings provide some of the best records of Native American life before the Civil War.

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