Native american vintage

Cherokee Nanyehi, Lakota

American Indian

In 1973, Indigenous activist Sacheen Littlefeather refused Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather” on his behalf, instead using the stage to highlight the mistreatment of her people in Hollywood.

Richard Throssel was born in Marengo, Washington in 1882. A Cree photographer best known for documenting life at the Crow Reservation at the beginning of

Among the numerous Native American nations that have lived on the Great Plains were the Sioux. The name “Sioux” means “little snakes.” They occupied the

The Native American Indians are an important part of the culture of the United States. While their people have lived on this land for thousands of years, today their numbers are dwindling. Once, the Native Americans lived on this continent with little discourse and disruption. They were well fed, content, and established. In fact, the men and women usually were placed in typical roles. Each of these beautiful portraits of Native American girls were taken from between the 1870s and 1890s. The…

Chief Bone Necklace of the Lakota people, making up the great Sioux Nation, ca. 1899. Colorized

Frank A. Rinehart, a commercial photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, was commissioned to photograph the 1898 Indian Congress, part of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. More than five hundred Native Americans from thirty-five tribes attended the conference, providing the gifted photographer and artist an opportunity to create a stunning visual document of Native American life and culture at the dawn of the 20th century. Although the portraits are posed and artistically lighted in…