Images

Chief Joseph (Heinmot Tooyalakekt, l. 1840-1904) of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Native American nation. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1903. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and Family, c. 1880. Photograph by F. M. Sargent, c. 1880. Washington State History Museum. Description by the museum: This photograph is historically significant and has great human interest as well. It may...

6c Cyrenius Hall "Chief Joseph" single, US postage stamp, issued 4 November 1968. Smithsonian National Postal Museum.

Map of the flight of the Nez Perce toward Canada in 1877 and key battle sites of the Nez Perce War. United States Department of Agriculture-Forest Service, 2004.

A statue of young Chief Joseph in Enterprise, Oregon. Photograph by Visitor7, 2013.

Geronimo's Grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Photograph by Looper5920, 2005.

Geronimo and his warriors, before his surrender on 27 March 1886, in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. Photograph by C. S. Fly, 1886. Fly's photographs are the only known images of Indian combatants still in the field who had not yet...

Apache medicine man and war chief Geronimo, photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1905. Description by Edward S. Curtis: This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March, 1905. According to Geronimo's calculation he was at the time seventy-six...

Geronimo (l. c. 1829-1909), Apache medicine man and war chief. Photograph titled Geronimo (Goyaałé), a Bedonkohe Apache, kneeling with rifle, 1887, by Ben Wittick, 1887. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

The failed British night assault of 14 August 1814 was the climactic moment of the Siege of Fort Erie, during the War of 1812. Though the Americans prevailed, they were ultimately forced to abandon the fort and retreat from Canadian soil...