Thursday 14 March 2013

Pictures of North American Indians

A Canadian Cree Indian 

When I was a young boy, long ago, I had a rather romantic view of the North American Indians. They were either the wild heroes or - maybe more often - the villains of the comics and adventure books I, and probably most other boys of my age, liked to read.

When I now look at these early 1920s photographs of North American natives, I see proud, but often also very sad faces.

Indians in a reservation in Montana.
Malamut Indians in Alaska.
A Sioux girl.
A young Tlingit woman.
Eastern Canada Indians.
Ojibway Indian from Manitoba.
Young Iroquois woman. 
Pueblo Indians in Tusuque, New Mexico.
Hualapai girl.
Moki girl from Arizona.
Chemehuevi wife with baby.
Stockbridge tribe woman.
Apache Indian workers in Arizona.
Florida seminoles.
Indian chief. 
Apache Indians.
Navajo Indian (Arizona).
Young Seri woman (Arizona).
Apache woman (Arizona).

15 comments:

  1. I like to see the tribes . I never see the Eastern Tribes.

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    1. Von den Stämmen des Ostens, gibt es nur wenig Fotos und wenn, dann in Kleidung der Weissen. Die Sac & Fox bilden da eine Ausnahme.

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    2. What about the Cherokee

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    3. Von den Cherokee existieren Fotos, wenn auch mit Kleidung der Weissen. Man darf nicht vergessen dass ca. am 1840 die Indianer des Ostens besiegt waren. Die Seminolen in Florida wurden 1858 besiegt. Fotografien von Indianern kamen ca. ab 1850 auf.

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  2. by 1700 there were mostly remnants of those great tribes remained in the east Due to doc illness war and assimilation.

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  3. I look in their eyes and try to imagine what they have seen. Beautiful images of such harsh lives

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  4. Es una alegria de poder conocer a las civilizaciones que evitaron en USA, más no la típica tonta y escupida historia que cuentan en escuelas y colegios, que Cristobal Colon descubrió America? Es la historia más falaz encelada en escuelas,

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  5. The reason native people have sad faces in because what happened to them many years ago and even nowadays.
    I'm half Navajo and half Scotch/ Irish,
    I lived on the Navajo Resavation.
    All my older Navajo family is gone now.

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    1. What do you mean nowadays? Indians got it made today. No taxes,casinos,free everything.

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    2. Can’t believe you actually wrote this! You are so totally full of shit! Think if your family and ancestors had every thing they own taken from them. Yeah boy that’s the life!

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    3. Some people are so ignorant! I feel bad for there stupidity! Seriously

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  6. Love these photos. I would like to share my, family's keepsakes.

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  7. I am part Cherokee and native Americans don’t have it made. Are you serious people need to research before they talk

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  8. I love all people.

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