american indians

"Little," the instigator of Indian revolt at Pine Ridge, 1890 / photo ...

Little, Oglala band leader, full-length studio portrait, seated, facing left, wearing turkey feather headdress, holding rifle and bow and arrows on lap.

Milk River Bridge at Coberg, Spanning Milk River, Coburg, Blaine Count...

Significance: This single span, pin-connected Camelback through truss (with subdivided member) was erected in 1916 by O.E. Peppard of Missoula, and is the only existing timber structure of this type in the stat... More

Montezuma Castle, Off I-17, Camp Verde, Yavapai County, AZ

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place Significance: Montezuma Castle is a cliff dwelling constructed by the Sinaguan people of Arizona's Verde Valley in the late 12th century. The Sinaguan culture thrive... More

Kin Naa Daa Pueblito, Gobernador Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Kin Naa Daa Pueblito, Gobernador Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Edward S. Curtis - Pretty Paint, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Pretty Paint, Crow man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Curtis no. 215-05. LC no. 53. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: The City of Lowell is generally considered to be the birthplace of large-scale manufacturing in the U.S. Begun as a transportation canal, the Lowell Canal System evolved, during the 19th century,... More

Indian Village, Ernest Thompson Seton House, Six miles southeast of Sa...

Survey number: HABS NM-182-A Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The siege of New Ulm, Minn. / painted by H. Aug. Schwabe.

Battle between Sioux Indians and settlers in August 1862. Reproduction of painting.

Chemawa Indian School, House, 2974 Misty Street, Salem, Marion, OR

Significance: Chemawa Indian School is the oldest, continuously operating non-reservation boarding school in the United States. Survey number: HABS OR-129-J National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92001333

Governor Jonathan Belcher Place, 401 Adams Street, Milton, Norfolk Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS MA-196 Building/structure dates: 1781 Initial Construction

Village of San Jose Dal Vado, Upper Pecos River Valley, San Jose, San ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1934 Survey number: HABS NM-126

[An Apache girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing be...

Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 127. LC no. 86. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian chiefs and U.S. officials [at Pine Ridge, S.D.]

Group of Euro-American and Lakota (Brulé, Miniconjou, and Oglala) men standing and sitting in two rows in front of tipis. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Col... More

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sutter's Mill, American River (submerged), Coloma, El Dorado County, C...

Address of, Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-1301 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1848 Subsequ... More

Chief James Clement Vann House, U.S. Route 76 & State Route 255, Sprin...

Significance: Residence of Joseph Vann, a Chief of the Cherokee Indians. Built in late 18th century. Survey number: HABS GA-174 Building/structure dates: 17q4 Initial Construction

Chief James Clement Vann House, U.S. Route 76 & State Route 255, Sprin...

Significance: Residence of Joseph Vann, a Chief of the Cherokee Indians. Built in late 18th century. Survey number: HABS GA-174 Building/structure dates: 17q4 Initial Construction

Pentagon Site, Pentagon 1, West of Barry's Landing off Highway 37, For...

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - The outlook, Native Americans

Two native American men mounted on horses, gazing off into the distance. LC no. 84. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Chemawa Indian School, Hawley Hall, 5495 Chugach Street Northeast, Sal...

Public domain photograph of cabinet, furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nebraska--Crazy Horse and his band of Indians on their way from Camp S...

Native Americans on horseback with travois. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Adolfo Canyon Pueblito, Adolfo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Beef issue to Indians. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Long row of Lakota men on horseback preparing to rope cattle; a few on horseback are galloping toward cattle--probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms pa... More

Hubbell Trading Post, Navajo Day School, Ganado, Apache County, AZ

Significance: The Navajo tribe constructed the Navajo Day School in the 1930's on land donated by John L. Hubbell for a school site near his trading post. The two original entryways to the two-classroom school... More

Hubbell Trading Post, Navajo Day School, Ganado, Apache County, AZ

Significance: The Navajo tribe constructed the Navajo Day School in the 1930's on land donated by John L. Hubbell for a school site near his trading post. The two original entryways to the two-classroom school... More

Handsell, 4835 Indiantown Road, Vienna, Dorchester County, MD

Significance: Handsell—a name derived from the original 1665 English land grant to Thomas Taylor—is a well-preserved example of the vernacular domestic architecture of the Chesapeake region. The house retains ... More

Handsell, 4835 Indiantown Road, Vienna, Dorchester County, MD

Significance: Handsell—a name derived from the original 1665 English land grant to Thomas Taylor—is a well-preserved example of the vernacular domestic architecture of the Chesapeake region. The house retains ... More

Indian chiefs who counciled with General Miles and setteled [sic] the ...

Posed group portrait of Lakota chiefs standing in front of tipi--probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

Pentagon Site, Pentagon 2, West of Barry's Landing off Highway 37, For...

Significance: Hundreds of crib-style timber structures were once found in the Northern Plains. Today only about 50 or 60 structures remain in upright positions. The structures were made as a temporary house b... More

Milo Olds House, Stanton, Mercer County, ND

Significance: In 1903 Milo Olds and his family settled and established a homestead in Mercer County, North Dakota, located on the banks of the Missouri River. Here, they set up a farm and constructed their new... More

Martin Apodaca Homestead, Canyon Largo, Lindrith, Rio Arriba County, N...

Significance: The San Juan Basin in northwest New Mexico was a long history of cultural groups occupying and then abandoning areas at both the regional and community level. During the late 19th and early 20th c... More

Petrified Forest National Park Roads & Bridges, Holbrook, Navajo Count...

Significance: The Petrified Forest National Park is so designated for its scientific and educational value, in addition to its natural scenic beauty. Intersecting, and at times, overlaying, prehistoric and his... More

[Indian delegation in the White House Conservatory during the Civil Wa...

Photograph of the Southern Plains delegation, taken in the White House Conservatory on March 27, 1863. The interpreter William Simpson Smith and the agent Samuel G. Colley are standing at the left of the group;... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Cherokee Supreme Court Building, 130 East Keetoowah Street, Tahlequah,...

Significance: In 1844 the Cherokee National Government constructed its first permanent structure in the new Cherokee Nation at Tahlequah, which had been designated as the seat of government in 1839. This build... More

Eskimos skinning a seal, Alaska

Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Shawnee Methodist Mission, West Building, Kansas City, Wyandotte Count...

Survey number: HABS KS-1 Building/structure dates: 1839- 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000345

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Phoenix Indian School, War Memorial, Northeast Corner of Central Avenu...

Significance: The War Memorial commemorated "the students of this school who enlisted in the Army and Navy during the World War." The number of memorials dedicated particularly to service in the US armed force... More

Cherokee National Capitol Building, 101-29 South Muskogee Avenue, Tahl...

Significance: The Cherokee National Capitol, completed and occupied by circa 1869, was constructed on the site which had served as the meeting place for the Cherokee Government since their arrival in Indian Ter... More

Kiva (Large), Bland, Sandoval County, NM

Survey number: HABS NM-16 Building/structure dates: ca. 1513 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1908 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

Mattapany, Patuxent River Vicinity, Lexington Park, St. Mary's County,...

Survey number: HABS MD-688 Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mattapany, Patuxent River Vicinity, Lexington Park, St. Mary's County,...

Survey number: HABS MD-688 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Village of El Cerrito, Pecos River Valley, El Cerrito, San Miguel Coun...

Significance: The town is a small element in a great natural amphitheatre surrounded by cliffs and steep slopes to the mesa. The Pecos River cuts its way into and out of this valley through two canyons and cas... More

Hill Road Pueblito, Carrizo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant i... More

Edward S. Curtis - Young Hairy Wolf--Apsaroke, Head and Shoulders Port...

Young Hairy Wolf, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Curtis no. 211-05. LC no. 51. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

The great train robbery - Steam locomotive, Public domain image

Caption: Sensational and startling "hold up" of the "Gold Express", by famous western outlaws. Created and "copyright 1896 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." No. 7319. Forms part of: Theatrica... More

Ben Long Ear - Public domain scan of print

Ben Long Ear, half-length portrait, facing front. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Fourth & Maple Streets (moved to Santee I...

Significance: The Episcopal Church was the third church constructed in Niobrara and the last for a good number of years. The church is significant as an example of rural ecclesiastical architecture with Gothic... More

Quniaika--Mohave, Head and Shoulders Portrait

A Mohave man, head-and-shoulders portrait, draped in blanket, facing front.

Chief of the Yavapai Apaches at Date Creek - Ahoochy Kahmah Group of A...

Ahoochy Kahmah, Chief of the Yavapai Apaches, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing uniform; group of prisoners. In album: Series of photographic views and portraits of Arizona and Arizon... More

Shawnee Methodist Mission, North Building, Kansas City, Wyandotte Coun...

Survey number: HABS KS-2 Building/structure dates: 1845 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000345

Skinning beef at beef issue. 19th century, Library of Congress collect...

Distant view of a small group, some Lakota, skinning a cow; two horse-drawn wagons on both sides--probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the Jo... More

Chemawa Indian School, House, 3014 Misty Street, Salem, Marion, OR

Significance: Chemawa Indian School is the oldest, continuously operating non-reservation boarding school in the United States. Survey number: HABS OR-129-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92001333

Old Fort Bent, La Junta, Otero County, CO

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fort tower, stone walls, fortification, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Burnsed Blockhouse, Near St. Mary's River, Macclenny, Baker County, FL

These drawings were donated to the H/H collection by the University of Florida's College of Architecture; the drawings were produced by architecture students at the University of Florida who chose to participat... More

[Arms] By the Honourable William Denny, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and C...

Fort Missoula, N. C. O. Living Quarters, Missoula, Missoula County, MT

Significance: Fear of the recent Indian uprisings led to the establishment of a military post here, six miles southeast of Hell Gate Pass, to protect the Mullan Road. This all-important link between Walla Wall... More

Fort Missoula, N. C. O. Living Quarters, Missoula, Missoula County, MT

Significance: Fear of the recent Indian uprisings led to the establishment of a military post here, six miles southeast of Hell Gate Pass, to protect the Mullan Road. This all-important link between Walla Wall... More

White House Ruin, Navajo Indian Reservation, Chinle, Apache County, AZ

Public domain photograph related to Native Americans, Indian reservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shau-Hau-Napo-Tinia. An Ioway chief / printed & colored at I.T. Bowen'...

Print shows Shau-Nau-Napo-Tinia, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding a tomahawk. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837 by E.C. Biddle in the clerks office of the District Court ... More

Chapel & Manse Congregational Mission, Santee, Knox County, NE

Survey number: HABS NE-16 Building/structure dates: 1870- 1871 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1919 Subsequent Work

Chapel & Manse Congregational Mission, Santee, Knox County, NE

Survey number: HABS NE-16 Building/structure dates: 1870- 1871 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1919 Subsequent Work

Fairview Cemetery, 700 Yale Boulevard Southeast, Albuquerque, Bernalil...

Entry and First Place Recipient 2011 HALS Challenge: Celebrating Cultural Landscapes of Diversity Significance: Fairview Cemetery (now Fairview Memorial Park) was the first cemetery established to serve New Tow... More

St. Mary's Pharmacy, Stevensville, Ravalli County, MT

Significance: The first Catholic mission in the northwest was founded by Father Jean de Smet for the Salish (Indians) in 1841. The mission was abandoned in 1830 when the land and improvements were sold to John... More

St. Mary's Pharmacy, Stevensville, Ravalli County, MT

Significance: The first Catholic mission in the northwest was founded by Father Jean de Smet for the Salish (Indians) in 1841. The mission was abandoned in 1830 when the land and improvements were sold to John... More

Cannonball Pueblo, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Cannonball Pueblo was constructed and occupied during the late 12th century by people associated with the ancestral Puebloan Mesa Verde culture which flourish... More

Cannonball Pueblo, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Cannonball Pueblo was constructed and occupied during the late 12th century by people associated with the ancestral Puebloan Mesa Verde culture which flourish... More

Cannonball Pueblo, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Cannonball Pueblo was constructed and occupied during the late 12th century by people associated with the ancestral Puebloan Mesa Verde culture which flourish... More

Cannonball Pueblo, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Cannonball Pueblo was constructed and occupied during the late 12th century by people associated with the ancestral Puebloan Mesa Verde culture which flourish... More

Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Apache County, AZ

Significance: The Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site is the oldest continually operated trading post on the Navajo Reservation dating from 1876. It is an institution which deeply influenced the accult... More

Hildebrand's Mill, Flint, Delaware County, OK

Significance: Hildebrand's Mill, turn of the century successor to the original 1845 mill, is one of the few remaining in Oklahoma which were provided for by treaty with the United States. As part of the compen... More

"Crow Butte." Near Ft. Robinson, Neb. and F.E. & M.V. R.R. -- In battl...

Distant view of butte; field in foreground. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.