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American Indian women too have joined the fighting forces against Germany and Japan. These three are members of the U.S. Marine Corps. They are [left to right] Minnie Spotted Wolf of the Blackfeet, Celia Mix, Potawatomi, and Violet Eastman,…

In the letter it explains the variety of languages the Native Americans could speak and how many nonnatives knew the language. The U.S army quickly learned they could use this to their advantage

“On February 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. It was taken down, and a second flag was raised. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured this second flag-raising. Now part of U.S.…

Neil Judd archaeologist reconstructing pottery shards from the Pueblo people.

Shinnecock Photographer Camille Seaman documents the faces and voices behind the NoDAPL Protests protecting the Standing Rock Sioux Nation between September and October of 2016

Autumn Peltier, Chief Water Commissioner of the Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ont., gives a speech to the 2019 UN Global Landscapes Forum, addressing the access to clean drinking water in various Indigenous communities.

Original Caption: Private First Class Preston Toledo (left) and Private First Class Frank Toledo, cousins and full-blooded Navajo Indians, attached to a Marine Artillery Regiment in the South Pacific with relay orders over a field radio in their…

Tribal attorney and Couchiching First Nation citizen Tara Houska chronicles the history of attempts by government and industry to eradicate the legitimacy of indigenous peoples' land and culture

Signs left by protesters of the NoDAPL movement detail their presence as protectors of the sacredness of Water. Photographed by Navajo Ti’aaschi’i Pamela J. Peters

Marble statue of Po'pay, a Pueblo Indian responsible for organizing the Pueblo revolt against the Spanish. The statue is located in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington D.C.