Republican politician Charles Curtis at a railroad station in Chicago, Illinois, circa 1928. Curtis was a member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas...
Paiute Indian writer and educator Sarah Winnemucka Hopkins , USA, circa 1880. Winnemucka was the first Native American woman to publish in the...
American ballerina Marjorie Tallchief in Barcelona with the Harkness Ballet, May 1966. Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images
Engraved portrait of William McIntosh , also known as Tustunnuggee Hutke , a prominent chief of the Creek Nation, circa 1840.
MILDRED BAILEY, SINGER AND PIANIST, IN A STAGED SHOT WITH TRUMPETS OVERHEAD AND SHADOWS ON THE WALL BEHIND. PHOTO, UNDATED.
Decked out in Indian feathers, Wahoo McDaniel, New York Jets' middle linebacker, warms up with a football stance before making his wrestling debut at...
American Menominee singer, waitress, convict, and lecturer Evelyn Frechette , June 1936. Evelyn Frechette, the dark haired, half Indian companion,...
Minneapolis, 18th October 1973: American Indian Movement leader Russell Means tells newsmen 18th October of AIM's Pedro Bissonette, who was shot and...
Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, fight Virginia's law against interracial marriages, 9th January 1965.
This is how Colonel Gregory Boyington looked, in the cockpit of his fighter plane, at the time of his wartime service.
Speculative portrait of American patriot, Crispus Attucks , possibly a runaway slave, who was killed by British troops in the Boston Massacre in...
Circa 1653, Samoset , a Native American of the Abnaki people of the Algonquin nation. In spring 1621, as the Pilgrims were still building the...
Pima Native American soldier Ira Hayes , circa 1945. He was one of the soldiers immortalised in a World War II photograph of Marines struggling to...
Sequoya , the Native American chief who invented the Cherokee alphabet. Also known as George Guess, he fought on the side of the United States in the...
Sacagawea, a Shoshone Native American woman who accompanied American explorers Lewis and Clark on their western expedition as an interpreter and...
Illustration depicting Native American Squanto , of the Patuxet tribe, serving as guide and interpreter for the pilgrim colonists at the Plymouth...
Profile portrait of Bailey-Boushay House AIDS inpatient Walter Ketah in his room, Seattle, Washington, 1993. The Alaskan Native American helped to...
Native American chief Red Cloud , of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, wearing a black overcoat, his hat resting in his lap, USA, circa 1875. Red Cloud was...
Cherokee delegates to the US Congress in Washington DC, 1866. Left to right: John Rollin Ridge , Saladin Watie, Richard Fields, Elias Cornelius...
Ponca chief and Native American civil rights leader, Standing Bear, wearing a head dress and holding a ceremonial tomahawk, 1899-1900.
Apache chief Geronimo poses for a portrait not long after his final capture and placement at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1886. Geronimo's life was spent...
American athlete Jim Thorpe at an athletics meeting at the Parc Pommery in Reims, France, 23rd July 1912. Thorpe is competing in the 110 yards...
Chief Joseph , leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce tribe of northeastern Oregon, USA, circa 1880.
Musician Rita Coolidge poses for a portrait backstage on January 28, 1972 in Los Angeles, California.
Will Rogers , American rustic comedian playing with a lasso whilst writing himself some notes, 1920. Original Publication: People Disc - HK0481
Amber Midthunder at Sierra Club's Trail Blazers Ball held at the Skirball Cultural Center on April 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Asia , circa 1900. [Portrait of Zitkala-za, a Yankton Dakota woman . Who was a librettist, writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and...
Quannah Chasinghorse attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in...
Sheet music cover image of the song 'John Ross', with original authorship notes reading 'Words by Francis De Haes Janvier Music by JW Jost', United...
Dakota Sioux musician, activist and actor, Floyd Westerman at an "Artists for Peace" concert in Hamburg, Germany, 4th September 1983. Floyd Westerman...
Native American writer and activist Mary Crow Dog poses while in Paris, France to promote her book on the 28th of May 1997.
American ballerina, Rosella Hightower in a Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas production of Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty" at The Théâtre des...
Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, 95 years-old, is a Crow historian, author and tribal spokesman whose writings on Native American history and culture,...
Minnesota DFL Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, with her daughter Siobhan Hellendrung at the Minnesota State Capitol, Saturday, August 15, 2020.
Native American actress Alaqua Cox arrives to celebrate the upcoming launch of Marvel Studios' "Echo" at the Regency Village Theater in Westwood,...
Lily Gladstone attends the 2023 Variety Power Of Women at Mother Wolf on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California
16th-21st November 1971; Native American composer, educator and writer, Louis W. Ballard meets his young audience before he narrates "Why the Duck...
Pocahontas (born Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at...
Wooden statue of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Mohawk woman who the Vatican will canonize later this year, seen in St. Peter's Chapel at the...
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivers remarks at the 2021 Tribal Nations Summit, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on November 15, 2021...
