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Tuell was a self-taught photographer who lived with her schoolteacher husband on Cheyenne and Sioux reservations in Montana and South Dakota. She taught home economics at reservation schools and in her spare time documented the social customs and…

In 1901, Seattle photographer Curtis conceived the most ambitious photographic project to document the lives and customs of American Indians, whom he called the "vanishing race." He received funding in 1906 from American banker J. Pierpont Morgan…

More than five hundred American Indians from thirty-five tribes attended the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha, Nebraska. American ethnographer James Mooney (1868-1921) of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology hired Omaha native…

Coastal northern Oregon was the traditional territory of the Siletz Indians. In 1856, the U.S. government forced the Siletz to absorb at least twelve other Oregon tribes on the reservation created from their homeland. Within just fifty years, the…

Many U.S. treaties with American Indians included promises of food and clothing because the tribes were often prohibited from entering their traditional hunting grounds. This photograph shows members of the Sioux Nation collecting beef rations at an…

O'Sullivan took the photograph displayed here during Lt. George M. Wheeler's (1842-1905) 1873 survey of eastern Nevada and Arizona. Wheeler twice described O'Sullivan's domestic image, once in 1874 and again in 1889, and his remarks reflect the…

In the photograph displayed here, Hillers demonstrates his ability to compose ethnographic views with an artistic sensibility. He uses light and darkness to dramatic effect, positioning a dense shadow diagonally across the bottom of the view that…

In Mesa, Canon, and Pueblo, Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859-1928) described the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest as "peaceable and industrious, quiet farmers by profession, as they were when the world first found them." Lummis clearly intended to…

Lummis spent his entire career promoting the Southwest and its "Original Americans." An obituary in the Los Angeles Times described the American explorer, author, and amateur photographer as "one of the first writers to realize that the history of…