Interesting vintage photos - faces of American Indians (21 photos)

Indians are the name given to all Native Americans who once lived in North America. These men and women inhabited the continent long before the white men came and began to take over their lands. The photographs preserved the faces, clothes and beauty of these representatives of some tribes.

Spokane Indians

Chief Joseph, Fort Spokane, Washington, 1886 and Indian family

Indian women and children, as well as a child in a traditional leather cradle - the child was kept in this way from birth, convenient for carrying and rocking.

Three chiefs of the Blackfeet tribe, as well as the Siksika, Siksika, are named after the color of their moccasins. The name comes from siksikanam - black and okkati - leg, foot.

Chief Owl, circa 1886, and Blackfoot family

Family - Blackfeet Tribe

Blackfoot women

Apache teenage girls (a collective name for several culturally related tribes of North American Indians speaking Apache languages of the Athabaskan branch of the Na-Dene family)

Apache Brothers and Chief

Apache

Kiowa tribe (self-name - “chief people”). Tribal girls, circa 1894

Tribal men, 1898, Nebraska

Tribal leader and women with children

Comanche tribe. The self-name is Numunu (“real people”). Tribe girls

Men of the tribe, circa 1890

Tribal faces

Cherokee, or Cherokee (English Cherokee) - Indian people in North America.

Tribal girls, circa 1896