Images

Buffalo Hunt Under the Wolf-Skin Mask by artist George Catlin, c. 1832. The painting depicts the practice of the Plains Indians, prior to the arrival of the horse, in which they would disguise themselves as wolves by wearing wolf hides to...

Baron Friederich von Steuben drills Continental soldiers at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778. By Edwin Austin Abbey, sometime before 1911.

A modern replica of the log huts that the Continental soldiers at Valley Forge lived in; most huts housed twelve soldiers at a time. Photo by Wikipedia user Dr. Blazer, May 2018.

North American bison on the Woolaroc Wildlife Preserve, Oklahoma, USA. The Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve includes 3,700 acres of land and provides a home for many different kinds of wildlife, including the bison.

Cheyenne beaded hide shirt (buckskin shirt) on display at the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve, Oklahoma. Photograph by Wolfgang Sauber.

"Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. This is the sort of boulder, perhaps, featured in The Turning Stones, one of the Wihio tales of the Cheyenne nation.

Cheyenne model teepee (tipi) c. 1860, photograph of a by John Bigelow Taylor. The model teepee is made of buffalo skin and decorated with images of running horses just as a full-sized Cheyenne teepee would have been.

Researcher, historian, and writer George E. Hyde (l. 1882-1968), auto-portrait taken by himself in his study at his home in Omaha, Nebraska, 1959.

Anglo-Cheyenne interpreter and historian George Bent (l. 1843-1918), image taken by an unknown photographer on 22 October 1916. National Park Service

Memorial of the 26 Martyrs of Japan in Nagasaki, who were executed for their Christian beliefs in 1597, after Japan had outlawed the religion. Canonised by the Catholic Church, the martyrs were tortured before their execution, with the event...