Facing the Sunset

Joseph Kossuth Dixon staged photograph of Native Americans riding into the sunset, 1913.

Lo the Poor Indian

“Lo the poor Indian Oh why does the White man follow my path” 1875 lithograph

Watching the Dancers

In the 1906 work “Watching the Dancers,” Edward S. Curtis photographed Hopi girls on a rooftop of Walpi pueblo

Ceremony

A devout young Crow wearing a prayer shawl, shakes the traditional peyote rattle and holds a feather fan and staff during an all-night ceremony on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, 1957

Mass Grave at Wounded Knee

George E. Trager was the first photographer to record the burial of the frozen corpses of Lakota Sioux Indians in January 1891 after Wounded Knee Massacre

Aboriginal life among the Navajoe Indians

One of the first photographs demonstrating Navajo weaving, taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan on the federal government’s Wheeler Survey in 1873 near Fort Defiance, New Mexico.

Unus Americanus ex Virginia

Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, from 1645 etching from Antwerp.

Sweatt v. Painter

Heman Sweatt outside court as part of his case to desegregate the law school at the University of Texas, which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of in 1950.

To Secure These Rights

Image from To Secure These Rights, the 1947 Truman administration’s report on civil rights that ended segregation in the military.

A Start Out of the Woods

Editorial cartoon promoting Dumbarton Oaks conference to create United Nations