Indians

Indians in the Missouri Valley Region

Reproduction of a portrait
painting of Apache Chief
Geronimo, by E.A. Burbank.
Fort Sill, O.T. [Oklahoma
Territory], 1898

We are in the process of creating content for the Indians Web pages. In the meantime, explore the Native American and Western Photograph Collection in the Digital Gallery. You may also want to read the accompanying essay written for this collection.

Essay

Photographing Native Americans in Oklahoma-Indian Territory
by Jeremy Drouin, a Missouri Valley Special Collections librarian
The American West, and in particular the Native American peoples that inhabited western lands, were a source of fascination for Euro-Americans in the nineteenth century. As the nation expanded westward guided by the doctrine of "manifest destiny," authors, artists, and photographers followed and documented the settlement of the western frontier. Read more...