Images

An aerial view of Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil.

Chief Earl Old Person (l. 1929-2021) of the Blackfeet nation pictured here singing a prayer at the opening of the United States Department of Agriculture's 150th Anniversary celebration in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15...

Chief Buffalo Bulls Back Fat (Stu-mick-o-súcks) of the Blood Indians of the Kainai nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1832. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington...

Chief Mountain Chief (Ninna-stako, l. c. 1848-1942), also known as Big Brave (Omach-katsi) and later as Frank Mountain Chief, warrior and leader of the South Piegan nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy...

Blackfoot horned bonnet of weasel skins, worn by Grass Dance leader, Alberta, c. 1900, with Blackfoot ceremonial shirt, c. 1880. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Chief Mountain, Montana, USA. A site sacred to the Blackfeet Nation of Native Americans. Now part of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and part of Glacier National Park.

The Indian battle and massacre near Fort Philip Kearney, Dacotah Territory, December 21, 1866, illustration decpiting the Fetterman Fight during Red Cloud's War from Harper's Weekly, v. 11, no. 534 (1867 March 23), p. 180. Library...

Study of the Fetterman Fight, a modern-day depiction of the battle of 21 December 1866 during Red Cloud's War, by Kim Douglas Wiggins.

Colonel Henry B. Carrington (l. 1824-1912), commander of the garrison of Fort Phil Kearny during Red Cloud's War. Photo by an unknown photographer, 1861. Published in My Army life and the Fort Phil. Kearney massacre...

Captain William J. Fetterman (l. c. 1833-1866), best known for the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands/The Fetterman Massacre in which he and 80 soldiers under his command were killed by the Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance...