| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
 Indigenous people were forced into reservations which were a small fraction of the size of their original lands.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Relocation is a euphemism for ethnic cleansing. The Lenape were forced West and now live in Ontario, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
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Reservation ration cards.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Effigy of Judge Boldt who ruled in favour of a group of indigenous people over a treaty.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
1980s Treaty Beer was produced in protest of indigenous hunting rights being protected.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Piegan fan made with eagle feathers. The fans are used to fan smoke to purify people at gatherings.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Violin and bow (c1910) attributed to Amos Gustina (Western Apache, 1858-1945), Arizona.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Napi Gives People Life" (1997) by Darrel L Norman (Pikuni Blackfeet, born 1943), Montana.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Northern Uti moccasins (early 20th century, Utah).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
An exhibit showing how the indigenous people are exploited as a brand. This is an arms catalogue from 1979.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indigenous people exploited for travel in land taken from Mexico after a war (New Mexico and Arizona, c1925).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"The Iron Horse", a 1924 silent movie and the first Western directed by John Ford (1894-1973).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"The Great Sioux Massacre" is a 1965 USA version of the Battle of the Big Horn.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indigenous chief being used to sell corn.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indian Head hydrolic brake fluid.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
The stereotype of the so called Wild West is born.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Movie poster with stereotypical image of indigenous people, the Comanche.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Brave Eagle lunchbox and thermos, 1950s. Brave Eagle was a USA TV show featuring an indigenous person as the hero. It ran from 1955 to 1956.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indian Chief motorcycle (1948).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Improved Order of Red Men membership certificate (1889). A group to help assimilate indigenous people into a European (American) way of life.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Poster for the Seatle Seahawks American football club containing indigenous tribal art from the Pacific coast.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Airline using indigenous motiff.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Northwest Coast Native American Barbie doll (2000).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indigenous Barbie doll (1994), a mix of different tribal groups.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Cream with an indigenous theme.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Land Lakes butter (2016).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Postage stamp (1923). Based on the Lakota chief, Hollow Horn Bear.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Arrow Motel sign.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Argo Corn Starch box (c1935).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Wigwam motor oil.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Savage Arms catalogue from 1939.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Old Indian Liver and Kidney Tonic.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Whiskey.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Canadian apples.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Native American playing cards.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Hiawatha cattle grain feed.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Big Chief root beer stand from c1940.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indians colouring book.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Stereotypes used to take away the dignity of the indigenous people.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Children's game to reinforce stereotypes.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Degrading indigenous heritage by using their culture in an advertisment for dog food.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
An Elvis Presley movie called "Half Breed", a USA term for a person of mixed European and indigenous parentage.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Lakota shirt (c1880) worn by warriors fighting USA soldiers lead by General Custer.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Lakota shirt from 1870.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Lakota shield and cover (cow rawhide, paint, c1890) from South Dakota.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Part of a large muslin painting by a follower of Sitting Bull called Strike the Kettle. Painted in Canada in 1890 after the Battle of the Big Horn.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Village life, part of a large muslin painting by Strike the Kettle, a follower of Sitting Bull (1890).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Warriors, part of a large muslin painting by Strike the Kettle, a follower of Sitting Bull (1890) UPPER.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Warriors on horses, part of a large muslin painting by Strike the Kettle, a follower of Sitting Bull (1890).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Lakota leaders' head dress, c1880. Feathers were awarded for bravery.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Lakota baby carrier, c1900.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Cree child's moccasins (left, c1885) and Inuit child's moccasins (c1916).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Kuna baby dress (c1920) from Panama.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Kaqchikel Maya child's cap from Guatemala, 1925.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Caribou Inuit girl's parka (c1910).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Cora drum (wood, rawhide, cord, c1920) from Mexico.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Inupiaq Inuit football (left, c1910, Alaska) and Hopi ball for the game, tacti (1963).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Apsaalooke (Crow) dress (right, 1915) for a child and a Pikuni (Blackfoot) doll (1850).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Detail of Pikuni (Blackfoot) doll (1850). The white beads represent elk's teeth, the ribbon is silk.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Quechua male and female dogs (c1920) from Peru.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
San Carlos Apache female doll (c1875), Arizona.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Omaha calumet (feather covered pipe used for meetings), Nebraska, c1870.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Banner from the 200th anniversary of the United States of America from an indigenous perspective.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indigenous rights poster from 1978.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown covers the history of indigenous people under European rule.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
A Mile Marker set up by people who had travelled to support a Sioux protest against an oil pipeline built through their land (A mile is a USA distance unit equal to 1.6km).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
An oil pipeline was diverted from its original route (dotted line) after fears that if a leak occurred it would contaminate water supplies for Bismark. It was then built through Sioux land.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Indian camp. USA movies created a "standard Indian" from a mix of indigenous cultures.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Western Airlines poster.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
A little help from the Indians.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Portrait of Pocahontas from Virginia after being baptised.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Copy of "Baptism of Pocahontas" (1839) by John Gadsby Chapman. The original is in the US Capitol.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
2015 painting of a Shaman by Robert Houle called "Shaman Dream in Colour", part of a series.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Shaman Takes Away the Pain" (2015) by Robert Houle.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Shaman Never Die" (2015) by Robert Houle.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Shaman Heals by Touching" (2015) by Robert Houle.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"The Pines" (2004) by Robert Houle.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
2013 painting by Robert Houle called "Flights of Starlings".
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Untitled (a red spider marching over a map of the Cascades) by Robert Houle (2013).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
Untitled by Robert Houle (2013).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Beach Crows" by Robert Houle (2013).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Mighty Crows Bounce Over The Great River" by Robert Houle (2013).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Museum of the American Indian
|
 |
"Where the Gods are Present" by four artists from 1989.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Train at Union Station.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Downtown building.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
View in Downtown towards the group of buildings containing the White House.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
View of Downtown.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Corner steak house.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Warner Theatre.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Pennsylvania Avenue is one of the most famous streets in the city.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
 |
Street corner along Pennsylvania Avenue.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Freedom Plaza
|
 |
Freedom Plaza is along Pennsylvania Avenue.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Freedom Plaza
|
 |
USA and DC flags.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Freedom Plaza
|
 |
Council of District of Columbia.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Freedom Plaza
|
 |
View of the tower from the USA Department of Justice.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Freedom Plaza
|
 |
The White House Visitor Centre.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Pershing Park
|
 |
Pershing Park is across the road from Freedom Plaza.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Pershing Park
|
 |
WW1 memorial.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Pershing Park
|
 |
WW1 for the USA was 1917-1918.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Pershing Park
|
 |
Quote from USA President Woodrow Wilson.
|
2024 |
