![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 rare and captivating set of photographs by a little-known photographer who worked among the Assiniboine and Sioux, comprising eight striking studio portraits of chiefs and braves, as well as one full-length portrait and six group shots taken in the field. S. W. Ormsby (American, active c. 1900) maintained a......
![Lot of real photo postcards documenting life at St. Michael, Alaska.]. Otto Koenig, compiler?](/pictures/thumb/6035_1.jpg?v=1592429233)
An evocative archive of real photo postcards capturing the coexistence of Russian settlers and native Alaskan peoples in St. Michael, Alaska as well as the Russian Mission there, a decade after the gold rush. During the gold rush, St. Michael (later Russian Mission), Alaska served as an important gateway.....
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.....