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	Activities: Plains
		Buffalo Hunt A buffalo hunt by Plains Indians. Hand-coloured lithograph by George Catlin (1796-1872), an early portrayer of the Plains Indians in the United States. ID #23256
		Buffalo Jump Plains tribes driving buffalo to death over chosen sharp drops in the prairies, thereby creating a massive meat-supply at the bottom, as painted by Alfred Miller, 1867. ID #10045
		Berry Drying Drying Saskatoon berries, available from northwestern Ontario to British Columba, were used among Plains Indians as a component of pemmican. ID #10043

	Activities: Shawnee
		Battle of Tippecanoe Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811, in which United States troops crushed a last, desperate Indian uprising, under the Shawnee leader, the Prophet, and his brother, Tecumseh. ID #20305

	Activities: Yukon & Kutchin
		Kutchin Dance An Athapascan Subarctic people of the Yukon and Lower Mackenzie Valleys, the Kutchin Indians are dancing the Kutcha-Kutchi, 1851. By Alexander Hunter Murray (1818-1874). ID #23258

	Activites: Miscellaneous
		Samuel de Champlain Trading Samuel de Champlain trading with Natives, early 17th century. Oil on board painting by C.W. Jefferys. ID #20049
		Indian Hunter An Indian hunter calling, as depicted by Cornelius Krieghoff, a Dutch artist who lived in Quebec from the 1840s to the 1860s. ID #10034
		Birchbark Canoe Construction Building a birchbark canoe, c. 1900, most probably by Lower St. Lawrence Indians. ID #10056
		Native Bark Canoe Photograph of a Native bark canoe in the making, in Ontario. ID #20043
		Examining Indian Children Dr. Bourget, Indian agent examining Indian children. ID #21886
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