1949 - Protesting a photography exhibit " "All this misrepresentation of historical fact is going to result in damage to the status of ...Indian population of today."

"War whoops echoed through Minnesota [April 18, 1949] as outraged Indian protested an art exhibit at Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

          "The Indian were on the war path both as art critics and red-blooded, genuine Indians.

          "The exhibit consists of 36 crudely drawn pictures of the New Ulm Indian "massacre" of 1862. It is being shown in connection with the Minnesota territorial centennial celebration.

          "The pictures are the work of the late James Stevens of Rochester, Minn, who is supposed to have painted them in 1875, when relations with the Indians were anything but cordial. 

          "They are owned by the Minnesota Historical Society and portray Indians engaged in scalping paleface women and tomahawking children. 

          "Minnesota;s present-day Indians don't think much of the exhibit - both as art and history. And they're telling Minnesota about it. Even the Sioux and the Ojibway, heredity enemies, see eye-to-eye on this.

          "Mrs Louise  Peake, of  Minneapolis, an Ojibway, (known as Chippewa in recent years) said: "Why it's not even good history. The pictures make no effort to tell why the New Ulm uprising took place. The Indians were in dire want. Their women and children were starving; a government Indian agent told them to eat grass, and the Indians reacted just as could be expected."

          "Mrs Jessie Larsen of Norton, Minn., and her daughter Mrs. Marie Alhrecht, descendants of Sioux Indians added: "Indians didn't scalp women... a display like this will give people an entirely erroneous idea of Indians."

1949, April 19 Long Beach Independent 

          "A descendant of an Ojibway chief, William Madison of Minneapolis, declared: "All this misrepresentation of historical fact is going to result in damage to the status of Minnesota's growing Indian population of today."