After the Civil War, government-sponsored expeditions furthered the record of the frontier West. Photographer William Henry Jackson traveled the farthest, when he joined Ferdinand Hayden’s 1870 survey. This Jackson photo of Shoshone Chief Washakie’s band and encampment near Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains is among the earliest photographs of native tribes prior to reservations.
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Photographed in native dress during a Nez Perce delegation to Washington, D.C. in 1868, Chief Kalkalshuatash holds a feather fan and pipe. After meeting with the government to restore the provisions of an 1863 treaty, his people still fell victim to funds squandered by government officials. 
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Kevin Kirkpatrick Kinda like what happens today. The government officials steal and plunder us all.
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Denny Mcconnell That's how the government works. Cheats, Steals, and Lies.
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In northeastern Arizona, this kneeling Hopi woman combed and arranged the maiden’s hair into whorls, a coiffure that represented the squash flower and symbolized that a girl was of marriageable age.
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Kim Norton Mathis The women of the Hopi tribe were designated to take care of the home, look after the children, and cook. The men of the tribe were the hunters, weavers, and performers of various ceremonies. A tradition for Hopi children was to wait twenty days after they were born, then the parents would hold the child facing the sun on the 20th day. Once the sun hits the child, he or she was given a name.
Janet Hart In the 1800's one sign of being of marriageable age was her first long skirt.
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On the reservation in Lame Deer, Montana, Julia Tuell photographed Northern Cheyenne girls taking care of their deerskin dolls and arranging their small tipis in a circle just as their elders did in the big camp.
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Juan Perez It was a way to remember their past and keep their culture alive, after being forced off their homeland and being indoctrinated , sometimes forcefully, into a culture that was alien to them.
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Tutored by the notorious Lola Montez, young Lotta Crabtree began her career at age eight, in 1855, dancing for gold miners in Grass Valley, California. She added a banjo and found greater success when she moved to San Francisco and on to New York City’s Broadway. The darling of the mining camps flaunted convention—here seen smoking a cigar!—much as Madonna and Miley Cyrus would do more than a century later.
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