NativeWeb Resources: Historic Photos and Collections

Name and Description	Nation	Location
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection		US - Northwest
The digital databases includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 3,800 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855. Secondary sources include 89 articles from the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and 23 University of Washington publications in Anthropology.
Benedicte Wrensted: Idaho Photographer in focus
In 1984, while researching photographs for the Smithsonian's Handbook of North American Indians, Cohan Scherer found a collection of glass plate negatives at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC. Labeled only as "Portraits of Indians from Southeastern Idaho Reservations, 1897," the images were so compelling that Scherer had prints made for the Handbook - a 20 vo lume encyclopedia summarizing the anthropology and history of Indians and Eskimos of North America north of Mesoamerica.
More sites on etext.lib.virginia.edu
Edward S Curtis		US - Central
Cardozo Fine Art has an online gallery of Edward S. Curtis photographs. We have the largest collection of vintage work.
Edward S. Curtis Collection		United States
Many of the photographs published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) in The North American Indian ([Seattle, Wash.] E. S. Curtis [Cambridge, U.S.A.: University Press] 1907 30. 20 v. E77.C97) were acquired by the Library of Congress through copyright deposit. Curtis worked over thirty years in remote regions of the United States and Canada to prepare this monumental survey. Through the support of J. P. Morgan, a lavish twenty-volume compilation of Curtis's photographs, in photogravure reproduction, was published in a limited edition of 500 sets.
More sites on lcweb.loc.gov
Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples
This United Nations Photo Website presents a selection of photos on the subject of Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples from its Photo Library archives.
More sites on www.un.org
Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance: James Mooney's Illustrations and Photographs, 1891-1893
Of all the incidents in recent American Indian history, the Ghost Dance of 1890 is probably without equal in evocative power. From the ecstatic dancing, the mysteriously patterned clothing, to the bloody snows of Wounded Knee, the Ghost Dance is pervaded with visually powerful images. But because they are so powerful, those images must be constantly examined; one must see as well as look.
Native American Indians of the Southwest, 1871-1975
3D Image tour of Early Photography Taken During the U.S. Geological and Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian and the Powell Survey of the Colorado River Canyons. Images produced from stereo photopairs were manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects.
Native Americans - Augustana College Library
Photographs taken by John Hauberg of Western Illinois Native Americans, including descendants of the famous warrior, Black Hawk.
Photographers of the Pawnee
The earliest photographs of Pawnees are of a delegation to Washington, D. C., in 1857-58, made by the studio of James E. McLees. Their photographs include Tirawahatlashar ' Sky Chief', Pita Reesa ru' 'Man Chief', and Nasharerurera 'Brave Chief.'
Pictures of Indians in the United States		United States
Selected from pictorial records deposited in the National Archives by 15 Government agencies, principally the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the United States Army.
More sites on www.archives.gov
UN Photos of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues - 2004 Session
Bringing together over 1,500 participants from more than 500 indigenous groups worldwide, the third session of the Forum (May 2004) was focused on “indigenous women."
More sites on www.un.org