![Indian Catholic Church. [with] Indian Wedding](/pictures/thumb/5167_1.jpg?v=1572624787)
Two remarkable photos—one of an “Indian Wedding”—documenting the communal bond between Menominee people and local white folks at the St. Joseph of the Lake Church, located on the Menominee Reservation, in northeastern Wisconsin. The St. Joseph of the Lake Church was established by Roman Catholic missionaries who settled in.....
A scarce pair of studio photographs of Choctaw children, including a boy and two girls, by noted western photographer and painter Antonio Zeno Shindler (1823–1899). While dated 1872 in manuscript, the Smithsonian dates the portrait of the two girls to 1868 and identifies Shindler as the photographer. The portrait.....
![“Medicine Bottle,” Sioux Indian Executed at Fort Snelling. [pencil inscription on verso]....](/pictures/thumb/4975_1.jpg?v=1560464045)
A stereoview picturing the Dakota brave “Medicine Bottle,” as photographed during his captivity at Fort Snelling following the Dakota Uprising of 1862. The 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux removed the Dakota people from their traditional lands in Iowa and Minnesota, and settled them on land along the upper Minnesota.....