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Crow Indians of northern Montana territory

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    Crow Indians of northern Montana territory. Fred Miller, photographer

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    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.

    photCL 189

  • How the Cheyenne Indians dried strips of buffalo meat for winter use, 1867

    How the Cheyenne Indians dried strips of buffalo meat for winter use, 1867

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    View of a tepee, fire pit and meat drying on a stand.

    photCL 189 (13)

  • A dismantled Indian teepee, 1868

    A dismantled Indian teepee, 1868

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    View of the wooden pole frame of a tepee.

    photCL 189 (17)

  • Second Cavalry Camp on Platte near Fort Fetterman, W.T

    Second Cavalry Camp on Platte near Fort Fetterman, W.T

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    View of tents in an encampment near the river. A man is watering his horse in the foreground.

    photCL 292 (16)

  • Osage Indians and wickiup, 1879, Northern Indian Territory

    Osage Indians and wickiup, 1879, Northern Indian Territory

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    An Osage man, woman and two children sitting in front of a home (wickiup). Meat is drying on rack at right.

    photCL 275 fld. 19 (8)

  • Arapahoe camp near Camp Supply, Indian Territory. 1869

    Arapahoe camp near Camp Supply, Indian Territory. 1869

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    View of an Indian man standing in front of several tepees.

    photCL 189 (11)