The
Curtis Collection
From the website, "The Curtis
Collection has ownership of the world's largest, most extensive collections
of Copper Photogravure Plates ever produced or assembled. These Copper
Photogravure Plates represent the life work of Edward Sheriff Curtis and
his massive documentation of Native Americans, "The North America Indian".
See the Tribal
Index to find Curtis's text and images of the following tribes and
many more:
Photo
Archives, Museum of the Rockies (Montana State University-Bozeman)
From the web site, "The
Museum's Photo-Archives collection contains over 80,000 photographs," including
some from the Crow Indian Archives of the Little Big Horn College.
For some examples, see the web page of the Elsa
Spear Byron Collection. From the Museum
of the Rockies web site.
Online
Western History Photography Collection (Denver Public Library, Colorado)
From the web site, "Our
on-line collection contains a selection of historic photographs from the
collections of the Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Department
and the Colorado Historical Society." Try searching
the collection for a tribe you are interested in or check the
sample subject list for more subjects. From the Denver
Public Library web site.
American
Historical Images On File: The Native American Experience
From the web site, "This
collection of historical photographs is ... a comprehensive collection
of images of Native American people. The collection is arranged chronologically
from the prehistoric period and the Paleo-Indians to 1990...The collection
includes information and images which describe the lifeways of various
tribes and include historical entries for particular Indian groups. Narrative
is provided that provides the historical and cultural background describing
the event, person, or subject presented." From the web site of the American
Indian Studies department of California State University, Long Beach.
The web site doesn't have
an index or a search engine, so here's a list of the images included on
each page.
Pre-Contact
to 1600
The First Migrations From
Siberia
The Eskimo Kayak
The Eskimo Igloo
Eskimo Storehouses
Eskimo Woman Dressed for
Winter
The Ancient Mound Builders:
The Great Serpent Mound
The Anasazi: Ancient Cliff
Dwellers of the Southwest
The Southwest: Prehistoric
Pueblos
Walpi Pueblo
Acoma Pueblo
Taos Pueblo
Early Native American Weapons
Bartolome de Las Casas
Documenting the Indians
of Florida
Champlain and the Iroquois
The Iroquois Confederacy:
Six Nations and the "Great Peace"
Hiawatha
Seasonal Migrations on the
New England Coast
An Algonquian Shaman
The Indians of California
Greet Sir Francis Drake
The Arrival of the Colonists
in Virginia
The Virginia Indians: The
Town of Secota
The Virginia Indians: Canoe
Building
The Virginia Indians: The
Manner of their Fishing
1600
to 1750
The Virginia Indians: Powhatan
Pocahontas and the Virginia
Settlers
Opechancanough and the Pamunkey
War
Corn and the Indians of
the Northeast
Massasoit's treaty with
the Pilgrams
Samoset Greets the Pilgrims
Roger Williams and the Narragansett
Indians
John Eliot: Puritanism and
the Indians of New England
King Philip's War
The Pequot War
The
Pequot Indians Petition the Colonists
Indians
and the Jesuits
Jacques
Marquette
William Penn and the Indians
of Pennsylvania
The Deerfield Massacre
The Tuscarora War
Bison Hunting Methods Among
the Natchez
Native Americans and Moravian
Missionaries
Tomochichi
View of Fort Johnson, New
York
1750
to 1800
Joseph Brant
The Defeat of General Braddock
Hendrick and the Battle
of Lake George
The Diplomatic Aftermath
of the Cherokee War
Stalking Turkey and the
Cherokee Delegation to Britain
Colonel Bouquet: Victory
Over the Indians of Ohio
Benjamin Franklin and the
Paxton Mob
Samson Occum and Indian
Education
Pontiac
Pontiac's Rebellion
The Proclamation of 1763:
British Settlements and the Eastern Indians
George Rogers Clark
Scalping and Indian Warfare
Indians During the Revolutionary
War: The Murder of Jane McCrea
Land Cessions in Ohio Territory:
The Meeting at Fort Harmar
The Washington Covenant
Belt
Little Turtle
The Battle of Fallen Timbers
1800-1830
President Jefferson and
Westward Expansion
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sacagawea, Interpreter for
Lewis and Clark
Indians and the Fur Trade
Indian Agents and the War
Department
Native Americans and European
Diseases
Cornplanter
William Augustus Bowles
Tecumseh
The Battle of the Thames
William Henry Harrison and
the Battle of Tippecanoe
Tenskwatawa
A Creek House:Influence
of the Europeans on the Indians
The Outbreak of the Creek
War
Aftermath of the Creek War
Menawa
William McIntosh
Wabaunsee
Jackson at Pensacola: The
First Seminole War
Carl Bodmer and the Plains
Indians
Plains Warfare: The Kansa
War Dance
Burial Rituals of the Kansa
The Dog Society of the Minnetaree
The Bear Dance
Keokuk
The Trail of Tears
1830-1850
Sequoya
The Cherokee Alphabet
Elias Boudinot and the Cherokee
Phoenix
John Ross
John Ridge
The Cherokees Arrive in
Oklahoma
Allen Wright: Oklahoma and
the Choctaw Indians
Choctaw Burials
Black Hawk
The Battle of Bad Axe
A Seminole House
The Second Seminole War
Osceola
Billy Bowlegs
The Second Seminole War:
Anti-Indian Sentiment
A Delegate to the Great
White Father
Anti-Indian Sentiment on
the Frontier: A Massacre Broadside
Thomas L. McKenney
The Chippewas: A Birch Bark
Wigwam
Episcopalians and the Chippewas:
The Church of St. Columba (Gull Lake, Minnesota)
Red Jacket
The Council of Prairie Du
Chien
1850-1875
A Wichita Village
Fort Simpson and the Hudson
Bay Company
Haida Buckskin Tunic: Animal
Symbols of the Northwest Coast Indians
Shamans of the Northwest
Coast: A Tlingit Shaman's Amulet
The Pacific Northwest:Totem
Poles
Kwakuitl Women: Customs
of Status
A Nootka: A Longhouse
The Plains Forts
Indians and the Wagon Trains
of the Frontier
Colonel Stephan Kearny and
the Oregon Trail
The Treaty Conference with
the Santee Sioux
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Thomas Fitzpatrick and the
Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851
Isaac Stevens
The Walla Walla Council
General William S. Harney
The Pima: Intertribal Warfare
in the Southwest
1864-1874
Bosque Redondo and the Long
Walk of the Navajo
Manuelito and the Navajos
The Navajo Family
Navajo Weaving
Origins and Uses of the
Peace Pipe
White Settlers and the Santee
Uprising
The Union Army Generals
and the Western Frontier
The Fetterman Massacre
The Cheyenne Against Custer's
Seventh Cavalry
General Hancock: Retaliation
Against the Cheyenne
The Medicine Lodge Treaty
Satanta
Washakie
Fort Union Under Attack
The Battle of Beecher's
Island
Black Kettle
The Battle of the Washita
Spotted Tail
Father Jean Pierre De Smet
Red Cloud
The Peace Commission and
the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
Red Cloud Meets President
Grant
Ely Parker
Indian Land for Money: Government
Annuity Payments (Chippewa in Wisconsin)
Satank
Captain Jack
The Modoc War
Toby Riddle, Interpreter
for the Modoc Peace Council
The Murder of General Canby
1875-1890
Custer's Wagon Train Arrives
in the Black Hills
The Battle of Rosebud
General Custer and His Indian
Scouts
The Battle of Little Bighorn
Crazy Horse
The U.S. Cavalry Adapts
to the Plains
Cavalry Troops at Fort Custer,
Montana: The Military Responds to Little Bighorn
Ranald MacKenzie
Sioux Prisoners from the
Battle of Slim Buttes
General Nelson A. Miles
Meets Sitting Bull After the Battle of Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
The Pictogram: Sitting Bull's
Autobiography
Gall
Chief Joseph
Looking Glass
Quanah Parker
Life on the Reservation:
Scavenging for Beef
The Peyote Ceremony and
the Native American Church
The Bannock War
Carl Schurz and the Department
of the Interior
The "Iron Horse" Comes to
the Plains
Life on the Great Plains:
The Role of Women
The Buffalo Hunt
The Plains: Products of
Buffalo
The Carlisle School for
Indians
Helen Hunt Jackson
Buffalo Bill Cody
The Native American in Popular
Culture: The Cigar Store Indian
Two Guns White Calf and
the Buffalo Nickel
Commercial Exploitation
of Native Americans
The Indian Police Force
on the Reservations
James McLaughlin at Standing
Rock
Indians, Indian-related
Policies, and the Media
Geronimo and the Apache
Wars
Geronimo en Route to Fort
Marion with Apache Prisoners
Geronimo Meets with General
Crook
Geronimo Surrenders
Life on the Apache Reservation:
Measuring Cloth Rations
The Dawes Severalty Act
and the Cherokee Strip
Creek Council Meeting: The
Final Fate of Indian Territory
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
Crow Prisoners Under Guard
Little Wolf and Dull Knife
Cheyenne Prisoners from
Dull Knife's Band, 1878
1890-1900
A Navajo's Trading Post
A Navajo Silversmith
The Pueblo Indians: Baking
Bread in a Horno
The U.S. Army and Law Enforcement
A Petition from the Hopi
to the U.S. Government
The Hopi Bean Planting Ceremoney
The Southwest: Kachinas
Land Transfers from Native
Americans to Whites: 1775-1894 (Map)
Native American Sign Language
Native American Language
Families (Map)
The John Powell Surveys,
1871-1879
Sioux Village Outside the
Pine Ridge Reservation, 1891
The Aftermath of Wounded
Knee
The Casualties at Wounded
Knee
The Ghost Dance Movement
and Wounded Knee
The Ghost Dance Religion
Wovoka
1900-1950
ADAHOONILIGII, a Navajo
Newsletter, Is Published
Charles Eastman
The Society of American
Indians
Ishi, the Last of His Tribe
Nostalgia for the Indians
in Popular Culture
James Francis Thorpe
Native Americans and Athletic
Competition
The Iroquois National Lacrosse
Team
The Failure of the Land
Allotment System
Indians and the American
Legal System
Franklin D. Roosevelt's
Policies Towards Native Americans
The Works Progress Administration:
Teaching and Education Opportunities for Native Americans
John Collier
The Indian Arts and Crafts
Board
The Northwest Coast Indians
and Christianity
St Joseph's School at the
Menominee Reservation
Ira Hamilton Hayes
Native Americans and Alcohol
Abuse
The Progress of Indian Rights
Groups
Federal Supervision of Native
Americans: The Indian Claims Comission
1950-1990
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
Relocation Program
The Iroquois and the U.S./Canadian
Border: The Indian Defense League
Industry and Reservations
Lands: Protesting a Reservoir
Native Americans and Fishing
Rights
Little Big Man is
Released
Bury My Heart at Wounded
Knee Is Published
Protest Against the Bureau
of Indian Affairs
The Trail of Broken Treaties
Clyde Bellecourt
Russell Means
The Siege of Wounded Knee
The Longest March
Louise Erdrich
Wilma P. Mankiller
Mary Crow Dog and Lakota
Woman
Leonard Crow Dog
The Revival of Traditional
Sacred Ceremonies
The Revival of Traditional
Indian Dances
Life on the Plains: The
Powwow
Beadwork Among the Seminoles
The Seminoles: Dugout Canoes
Indian Reservations, 1987
(Map)
Native Americans and the
Environment
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Native Americans Reclaim
Specimens from Museums
W. Richard West, Director
of the National Museum of the American Indian |