Film-maker Paul Ratner developed a passion for researching old photographs of indigenous people while making “Moses on the Mesa”, a film about a German-Jewish immigrant who fell in love with a Native-American woman and became governor of her tribe of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico in the late 1800s.
“What has been most gratifying to me about researching old photos of Native Americans is when the relatives of the people featured in the photos discover them through our popular Facebook page,” Ratner told Bored Panda. “Many of them have never seen these photos and are excited to find them. It is also exciting when folks correctly identify the people and the tribes pictured in the photos since the archives or vintage photo auctions often have incorrect or incomplete information. I feel like through this process we are reclaiming some lost history.”
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#1 Minnehaha. 1904
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#2 Bone Necklace. Oglala Lakota Chief. 1899. Photo By Heyn Photo
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#3 Blackfeet Tribal Camp With Grazing Horses. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock
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#4 Eagle Arrow. A Siksika Man. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock
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#5 Blackfeet Girl. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock
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#6 Chief James A. Garfield. Jicarilla Apache. 1899. Photo By William Henry Jackson
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#7 “Painted Tipis Of The Headmen”. Blackfeet. Montana. Early 1900s. By Walter Mcclintock
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#8 Arrowmaker, An Ojibwe Man. 1903
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#9 “Ringing Bell”. 1908. Minnesota. Handpainted Photo Print By Roland W. Reed
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#10 Handpainted Print Of A Young Woman By The River. Early 1900s. Photo By Roland W. Reed
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#11 Charles American Horse (the Son Of Chief American Horse). Oglala Lakota. 1901. Photo By William Herman Rau
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#12 Chief Little Wound And Family. Oglala Lakota. 1899. Photo By Heyn Photo
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#13 Cheyenne Chief Wolf Robe. Color Halftone Reproduction Of A Painting From A F. A. Rinehart Photograph. 1898
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#14 ”In Summer”. Kiowa. 1898. Photo By F.a. Rinehart
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#15 “Songlike”, A Pueblo Man, 1899. Photo By F.a. Rinehart
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#16 Walks-in-the-water (soya-wa-awachkai) And Her Baby Koumiski (round Face). Siksika. Montana. Ear
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#17 Amos Two Bulls. Lakota. Photo By Gertrude Käsebier
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#18 She Who Travels In The Sky. Ojibwe. 1908. Photo By Roland Reed
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#19 Northern Plains Man On An Overlook. Montana. Early 1900s. Hand-colored Photo By Roland W. Reed
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#20 Blackfeet Children (including “sa-ko-uka-etsusin”). Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide B
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#21 Mrs. Bad Gun. 1879. Cheyenne. Photo By L.a.huffman
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#22 Handpainted Print Depicting Five Riders Going Downhill In Montana. Early 1900s. Photo By Roland W. Reed
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#23 Si Wa Wata Wa. A Zuni Elder. New Mexico. 1903. Photo By Edward S. Curtis
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#24 A Blackfoot Couple. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock
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#25 “Coming Running”. Blackfeet Woman With Children. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By W
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#26 Ojibwe Woman. Early 1900s. Photo By Roland Reed
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#27 Piegan Couple. Ca. 1890-1910. Glacier National Park, Montana. Colorized Photo/postcard
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#28 Night-herder On Lookout Butte Overlooking Old Man’s River. Blackfeet. Montana. Early 1900s. Gla
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#29 Red Stripe Tipi And The Thunder Tipi. Siksika Camp. Montana. Early 1900s
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#30 Blackfeet Family. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock
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#31 Vapore. Maricopa. 1899. Photo By F.a. Rinehart
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#32 A Medicine Man With Patient. Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. 1905. Photo By Carl Moon
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#33 Broken Arm. Oglala Lakota. Ca. 1899. Photo By F.a. Rinehart
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#34 Acoma Pueblo. New Mexico. Early 1900s. Photo By Chicago Transparency Company
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#35 Geronimo (goyaałé). Apache. 1898. Photo By F.a. Rinehart
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#36 Piegan Men Giving Prayer To The Thunderbird Near A River In Montana. 1912. Photo By Roland W. Reed
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#37 Ute Chief Ignacio. 1870-1890
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#38 A Woman By The Star Tipi In Blackfoot Camp. Early 1900s
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#39 Riders With Coup Sticks. Blackfeet. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclint
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#40 “Hiawatha’s Return.” 1904. Photo By Detroit Photographic Co
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#41 Thunder Tipi Of Brings-down-the-sun. Blackfoot Camp. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walte
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#42 Old Coyote (aka Yellow Dog). Crow. Original Photo Circa 1879 (color Tinted Circa 1910)
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#43 A Crow Dancer. Early 1900s. Photo By Richard Throssel
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#44 Strong Left Hand And Family. Northern Cheyenne Reservation. 1906. Photo By Julia Tuell
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#45 Bear Chief Cutting A Green Hide. Blackfeet. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter
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#46 Chief Mad Wolf. Blackfeet. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock
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#47 Chief Hollow Horn Bear. Sicangu Lakota. 1905. Photo By Delancey W. Gill
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