35 Beautiful Portrait Photos of Native Americans From the late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

   

Native Americans, also known as First Americans, Indigenous Americans, American Indians, and other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the United States, including Hawaii and territories of the United States, and other times limited to the mainland.

 
 
Portraits of Native Americans  from the late 19th and early 20th centuries
 
There are 574 federally recognized tribes living within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian reservations. “Native Americans” (as defined by the United States Census) are Indigenous tribes that are originally from the contiguous United States, along with Alaska Natives.
 
Indigenous peoples of the United States who are not American Indian or Alaska Native include Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Chamorros. The US Census groups these peoples as “Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander”.
 
 
These amazing vintage photos from Rick Soloway captured portraits of Native Americans from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 
 
A young American Indian mother and her baby

 

 
A young Chiricahua Apache woman in native dress

 

 
A young Kiowa (Kiawah) woman in native dress

 

 
A young Native American girl in western dress

 

 
An Apache warrior seated and holding a sheathed bow and arrow quiver

 

An unknown Native American Indian with ornate headdress

 

Bear Shield

 

Chief Red Whip

 

Chief Running Bird

 

Chief White Horse

 

 
Crazy Horse

 

 
Frank Hup and Son

 

Joseph and Susie Good

 

Judge Bird Head and wife

 

 
Long Bull

 

 
Lovely Enohet woman

 

 
Mountain Chief

 

 
Mr. and Mrs. Sitting Hawk

 

 
Mrs. Blue Bird

 

 
Mrs. James Cedar

 

 
Mrs. Locke

 

 
Pawnee couple, Genoa, Nebraska

 

 
Pawnee tribesman, Genoa, Nebraska

 

 
Pawnee woman, Genoa, Nebraska

 

Portrait of Pedro, a Navajo

 

Sioux Indian

 

Two Native American children in western dress

 

Two Strikes, Chief of Sioux Nation, Wounded Knee, South Dakota

 

Two Winnebago or Menominee women from Northern Wisconsin

 

Two young Apache women from Arizona with their basketry

 

Woman in traditional dress

 

Wounded Bear, Wounded Knee, South Dakota

 

Young Native American man with a rifle standing next to a seated Caucasian man wearing a hat

 

Young Native American woman

 

 
"Curley" a Crow Indian Scout for General Custer

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