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Contents

Introduction
1Native Americans
Payment and control of representation
2Native Americans and their control of their representation
3Edward P. Tobie: Photographing Indians
Early studies
4Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Native Americans
5Maungwudaus (George Henry)
6Stereoviews: Native Americans
7Tintypes: Ethnic: Native Americans
8Cartes de visite: Native Americans
9Cabinet cards: Ethnic: Native Americans
10Photochroms: Native Americans
Vanishing world
11Native American: The search for the Vanishing Race and a vanishing world
Photographers of Native Americans
12Indigenous photographers of North America
13Photographers of Native Americans
14Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872)
15William Henry Jackson: Portraits of American Indians (1876)
16Charles Milton Bell: Native Americans
17De Lancey W. Gill: Native Americans
18Frederick Monsen: Native Americans
19Joel E. Whitney: Native Americans
20Camillus S. Fly: Native Americans
21Eadweard Muybridge: The Indians of California
22Byron H. Gurnsey: Native Americans
23John K. Hillers: Native Americans
24C.R. Savage: Native Americans
25Elias A. Bonine: Native Americans
26Charles F. Lummis: Native Americans
27L.W.W. Stillwell (Deadwood, South Dakota): Native Americans
28Frank Jay Haynes: Native Americans
29Carl Moon: Native Americans
30Adam Clark Vroman: Native Americans
31Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884)
32William McFarlane Notman: Canada: First Nations
33Frank Rinehart and Adolph F. Muir: Native Americans
34Frank Rinehart and Adolph F. Muhr: Attendees of the 1898 Indian Congress
Native Americans
35Frank Rinehart: Platinum prints: Native Americans
36Gertrude Käsebier: Native Americans
37Laura Gilpin: New Mexico and Arizona
38Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
39Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian
40Edward S. Curtis and Pictorialism
41Edward S. Curtis: Photograph frames
42Joseph Kossuth Dixon: The Vanishing Race (1925)
43Walter McClintock: The Blackfoot of Montana and their environment
Warriors and celebrity
44North American Indian Wars: Portraits of Native American leaders
Indian delegations
45Indian delegations
Settlements
46John K. Hillers: Native American settlements
Enforced acculturation
47John N. Choate: Indian Training School, Carlisle, PA
Indian wars
48North American Indian Wars: Introduction
49North American Indian Wars: The photography of aftermath
50Modoc War (1872-1873)
Contemporary photographers
51Gary Auerbach: Native Americans
Contemporary trends
52The inappropriate usage of Native American imagery
53First Nations and contemporary art and photography

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