Signatures and pictographs
Representatives of the Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Wyandot tribes signed this treaty with the United States on November 17, 1807, ceding millions of acres in...
Sinte Galeska, ca. 1880
Sinte Galeska, also known as Spotted Tail, a chief of the Bruleton, band of the Oglala Sioux, was one of the signers of the Fort Laramie Treaty.
Stella Apawo
Stella Apawo, a Ute Indian, examines an elk skin hung to dry in a barn on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah in this photograph from May 1951.
Students at the He-Dog Day School
These students were photographed at the He-Dog Day School in 1940. The school, a consolidated day school located in Parmelee, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in...
“The greatest athlete in the world”
Jim Thorpe’s days as an athlete started at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, playing football and running track. In 1909, he was...
Three Marine Corps women reservists, Camp Lejeune, NC
American Indian women too have joined the fighting forces against Germany and Japan. These three are members of the U.S. Marine Corps. They are [left to right] Minnie...
Tradition
Patricia Duncan photographed Mary Louise White Cloud Rhodd in October 1974, in White Cloud, Kansas. The granddaughter of Chief White Cloud, for whom the town is...