Native Canadians

Medicine Bear and another Cheyenne man. 1890. Montana. Photo by Christian Barthelmess. Source - Montana Historical Society

Kee-yah"-ta-di aka Loti aka Lotta Atsye. Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. ca. 1904 - 1907. Photo by Carl Moon. Source - Huntingon Digital Library.

an 1875 robbery reward flyer

Navajo silversmith. 1880. Source - National Archives.

Chief Al-che-say. White Mountain Apache. ca. 1904. Photo by Carl Moon. Source - New York Public Library

Lakota Chief Iron Tail cranking an automobile. ca. 1915.

Apache Girl. 1889. Photo by D. B. Chase

Mr. and Mrs. White Moon, Cheyenne. Montana. Early 1900s. Photo by N.A. Forsyth. Source - Montana Historical Society.

Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud. 1900. Photo by Heyn & Matzen.

"Red Cloud (Lakota: Maȟpíya Lúta; 1822 – December 10, 1909) was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1868 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American opponents whom the United States Army faced in the western territories. He defeated the United States during Red Cloud"s War, which was a fight over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. The largest action of the war was the Fetterman Fight, with 81 US soldiers killed; it was the worst military defeat suffered by the US Army on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn 10 years later.

After signing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), Red Cloud led his people in the transition to reservation life. Some of his opponents mistakenly thought of him as the overall leader of the Sioux groups (Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota), but the large tribe had several major divisions and was highly decentralized. Bands among the Oglala and other divisions operated independently, though some individual leaders were renowned as warriors and highly respected as leaders, such as Red Cloud." [WikiPedia]

Blue Horse. Oglala. 1900. Photo by F.A. Rinehart

Evening at Blackfeet camp. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass lantern slide by Walter McClintock. Source - Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library