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.

Tribute

This detail is of a cartouche from a map of northeastern North America first published around 1650. This version, Recens edita totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali siti, delineatio cura et sumtibus Mattaei Seutteri (Recently issued [map] of New Belgium in North America, excecuted by the care and at the expense of Matthäus Seutter), from Augsburg, circa 1730, shows an inset of New Amsterdam with slaves bearing tribute via mythological gods to the British king. The Native American at the far left carries skins.

Williams

Image of Roger Williams with the Narragansetts

Trade

Iroquois trading with Europeans, 1722