Navajos fighting the Japanese
Native American Marines pose for the camera while serving on the Pacific island of Bougainville in December, 1943.
Peace commissionersand tribal representatives
Members of the Indian Peace Commission, including General Sherman, were photographed meeting with Indians at Fort Laramie in 1868 by Alexander Gardner.
Portrait of a 20th-century Native American
Emma Sheppard attended the Cheyenne River School, on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in central South Dakota, when she was photographed on April 30, 1915. The...
Portrait of an unidentified Native American man
This photograph, taken around 1920, shows a middle-aged Native American man, possibly a member of the Sicangu Oyate tribe living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in...
Posing for Normal Rockwell
On October 19, 1969, W.L. Rusho took this photograph of John Lane’s Navajo family at Page, in northeastern Arizona, near the Navajo Nation. They were modeling for...
Practical education
Students conduct physics experiments at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, ca. 1915. The school, the first of the off-reservation...
Pueblo couple
This undated photograph shows a Pueblo couple in their home.