In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we thought we’d recognize native people, through the lens of history.

Boston Public Library has a beautiful collection of historical imagery that includes hundreds of portraits of Native Americans. These sepia-toned images show peoples from the Sioux, Apache, Kiowa, Arapahoe and Crow tribes, taken around 1898.

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Ben VanderVeen is the founder and editor of Moss & Fog, one of the web’s longest-running visual culture destinations. Since 2009, he’s been finding and framing the most beautiful, surprising, and thought-provoking work in art, architecture, design, and nature — reaching over 325,000 readers each month. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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