Images

Tamahay (Tamaha, l. c. 1776-1864), Dakota Sioux guide to Zebulon Pike in 1805, who also served as a scout for the Americans during the War of 1812. Photograph taken c. 1860. Minnesota Historical Society, Gale Family Library, St. Paul.

Pike's Peak, Colorado, USA, named for the explorer and soldier Zebulon Pike who led an expedition to the summit in 1806. Photograph by David Shankbone, 2008.

Chief Joseph (Heinmot Tooyalakekt, l. 1840-1904) of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Native American nation. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1903. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and Family, c. 1880. Photograph by F. M. Sargent, c. 1880. Washington State History Museum. Description by the museum: This photograph is historically significant and has great human interest as well. It may...

6c Cyrenius Hall "Chief Joseph" single, US postage stamp, issued 4 November 1968. Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

Map of the flight of the Nez Perce toward Canada in 1877 and key battle sites of the Nez Perce War. United States Department of Agriculture-Forest Service, 2004.

A statue of young Chief Joseph in Enterprise, Oregon. Photograph by Visitor7, 2013.

Geronimo's Grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Photograph by Looper5920, 2005.

Geronimo and his warriors, before his surrender on 27 March 1886, in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. Photograph by C. S. Fly, 1886. Fly's photographs are the only known images of Indian combatants still in the field who had not yet...

Apache medicine man and war chief Geronimo, photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1905. Description by Edward S. Curtis: This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March, 1905. According to Geronimo's calculation he was at the time seventy-six...