Sandy Myers

The Antelope dance--Hopi Indian dancers

British Columbia, Masked Cowichan dancer

Lucy Thompson, circa 1916

Lucy Thompson was a Yurok and her name was Che-na-wah-Weitch-ah-wah. She married Milton "Jim" Thompson and took the name Lucy Thompson.

In 1916 (when this photo was taken) she wrote a book, "To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman," which preserved the stories of her people.

She died in 1932.
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress

Hopi dancers preparing for ceremony on upper terrace.

A lithograph of Major Ridge, who supported acculturation of the Cherokee.

Dance at Cochiti Pueblo

A photo of Flathead Native Americans (Salish) holding a pre-Christmas family gathering on the west side of Glacier National Park, in the dense forest of evergreen trees that skirt the Rocky Mountains

Hand-beaded cap which belonged to Chickasaw Chief George Colbert in the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art in Tuscumbia, Alabama. This cap was given as a gift of friendship to his friend a Mr. Pride, who was an early white settler to the area which is now Colbert County.

Siksika man with calumet and young boy inside tipi.

Sia buffalo dancer

Chief Joseph Quanah Parker of the Nez Perce, Wallowa Band as a young man. He succeeded his father as chief in 1871 and lead the Nez Perce when the U.S. government was trying to force the Nez Perce onto reservation land in Idaho. The struggle between Chief Joseph and the U.S. government lasted many years. He died in 1904 and is buried in the state of Washington.

Since he was born between 1840 and 1845 and he looks about 25 or so here, this photo was probably taken sometime around 1870.

This striking Native American photo is of Plenty Holes. Plenty Holes (makes me wonder how in the world he got this name) was a member of the Sioux tribe.

This portrait of Plenty Holes shows him in his full feather headdress and bone breast piece. Interesting note, Native Americans actually wore feathers in their hair/headdress to keep the sun out of their eyes.

The apocryphal story on Jeremiah is that he migrated from South Carolina to St. Clair Co., Alabama with his young wife and little else. He was so poor that while everyone else had a wagon, he only had a sled. He came into a great amount of land very suddenly. Supposedly, he befriended an Indian who told him of a dream wherein a white man gave him a gun. Jeremiah gave the Indian a gun, and not too long later, told the Indian that he had a dream wherein an Indian gave him some land. Perhaps this is how Jeremiah came into the land. Perhaps not. Jeremiah embraced Christianity late in life at the insistence of his son, a prominent Baptist preacher. It is told that, too frail to resist, Jeremiah was strapped into a chair and dunked in the Coosa River. Some researchers believe that Jeremiah was Cherokee, or possibly Creek. I must agree that the photo bespeaks Native American ethnicity. In Jeremiah's time, it was unheard of for a man not to have a religious affiliation. That he did not embrace Christianity until so late in life also indicates that he converted from Native American Beliefs.

Pueblo Native Americans protesting in 1923 a broken promise made by President Lincoln.

Santiago Naranjo, Waihusing, James Miller, and Jesus Baca are wearing traditional and western clothing, each wearing a blanket. They are carrying a cane given them by Abraham Lincoln as a token of his promise of permanent retention of their lands.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Underwood and Underwood

A Tewa maiden

Village of the Tewa Basin in winter. Chimayo, New Mexico

Chaiwa--Tewa

[Nampeyo, a noted Tewa Hopi potter of the Hano pueblo in...

A Tewa girl

Tewa girls