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Indigenous Peoples Resources: Images

"The financial and colonial drive that usurps Native peoples ways of life is not just relegated to the past; it continues today."

Pocahontas

Pocahontas by Unidentified Artist, copy after Simon van de Passe, after 1616, oil on canvas. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 Currently on view in the Portrait Gallery's exhibition: American Origins.

Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo 1935-36 By Helmut Naumer, Sr. Pastel, paper. H. 30.5, L. 47.0 cm Bandelier National Monument, BAND 1408

Mummy Cave

Mummy Cave, Navajo Indian Reservation, Chinle, Apache County, AZ

Sewing Circle

Members Sewing Society
Smithsonian Institution Flickr site

Full of Rainbows

Sometimes, During a Summer Storm, Her Hair Ran with Rainbows 1992 By Kevin Peters Acrylic on canvas. L 76, W 61 cm Nez Perce National Historical Park, NEPE 34566

Montezuma Castle

Montezuma Castle, Off I-17, Camp Verde, Yavapai County, AZ

Navajo Code Talkers

Members of the 3rd and 4th Division Navajo code talker platoons of World War II, dressed in their unit's uniform, pose for a group photo during a commemoration of the landing on Iwo Jima
National Archives

Harvest Dance

Harvest Dance c 1940 By Pablita Velarde Dancers in their traditional corn dance attire; the six figures include two men, two women, one koshare [ceremonial clown] and a singer/drummer. This work was commissioned by Bandelier National Monument under the Works Progress Administration ]WPA] program. Casein paint, masonite. L 40.5, W 17.8 cm [L 16, W 7 inches] Bandelier National Monument, BAND 664
 

Ceremonial Cave

Historic American Buildings Survey., Donald W. Dickensheets, Photographer. June 24, 1940 (SOUTH ELEVATION). - Ceremonial Cave, Bland, Sandoval County, NM