Housing a wealth of ethnographic information yet steeped in nostalgia and predicated upon the assumption that Native Americans were a "vanishing race," Curtis's

"Curtis spent the best part of his life-nearly thirty years-documenting what he considered to be the traditional way of life for Indians living in the trans-Mis

A study of the literary influence of Edward Curtis's multi-volume collections of Native American photographs.

The U.S. Library of Congress presents an online exhibit of the published photogravure images from the volumes of "The North American Indian" by American photogr

The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains?Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, a