An evocative photograph of a cigar store Indian looking rather stranded on a New York City street, his hand held to his forehead as he scans the scene before him, as if searching for the land that once was his. A tailor’s sign hangs next door, reading in part “Silk...
![No. 446. Rosebud Agency. D[akota]. T[erritory]. William R. Cross, photog.](/pictures/thumb/4630_1.jpg?v=1534721037)
A fine view of the Rosebud Agency compound and the surrounding landscape by an early photographer of the Great Plains. This beautiful photo was taken ca. 1875–1885 by photographer of the Nebraska-South Dakota frontier, William R. Cross (1839–1907), capturing the Rosebud Agency settlement and surrounding terrain. Originally from Vermont, Cross’s...
![“Medicine Bottle,” Sioux Indian Executed at Fort Snelling. [pencil inscription on verso]. Benjamin. F Upton, attrib.](/pictures/thumb/4975_1.jpg?v=1537988679)
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...