[Detail] Painted lodges - Piegan. Edward S. Curtis 
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Collection Overview
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images presents the 2226 photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis for his work The North American Indian. Included are images of tribes from Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska.
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- Development of the Industrial United States, 1876-1915
- Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930
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- American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
- California As I Saw It
- History of the American West
- Indian Land Cessions in the United States
- Omaha Indian Music
- Pioneering the Upper Midwest
- Taking the Long View
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Last Updated: 06/12/2009