Visual Materials

A rare and beautiful view taken near the Canadian River, I.T. [Indian Territory], fall of 1868, of an Indian encampment

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Description: View of several tepees standing among trees.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1868
Call number: photCL 189 (4)
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A rare and beautiful view taken near the Canadian River, I.T. [Indian Territory], fall of 1868 of an Indian encampment. [(Belous): Kiowa camp near the Canadian River, 1869. Kicking Bird died here in 1875.]

Visual Materials

This is a collection of mostly studio portraits of Native Americans from the Midwestern and Southwestern United States taken during the American Indian Wars. There are also views of their homes and camps on reservations. The photographs in this collection depict members of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, Osage, and Wichita tribes during the American Indian Wars; Native American camp sites on Indian reservations; chieftains; a medicine man; native prisoners of war; native women and children; braves and their families; tipis; native families; and native scouts for the U.S. army. Notable portraits include Lone Wolf, Satank, Chief Stumbling Bear, and Chief Powder Face. William S. Soule is the photographer of the first 23 photographs, and Fred Miller is the photographer of the last two.

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