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My 6 times Great Grandmother was the sister of the Chief of the Mohawk Indians in New York circa 1750. This is part of my biological and spiritual heritage. Tragically, the greatest genocide in the history of Earth was the murder of native people in North and South continents of the Western Hemisphere of Earth, misnamed “America” by European “immigrants”.  It is estimated that as many as 100 million people were killed by disease and warfare waged on them by Caucasian invaders from European countries. By 1900 only about 200,000 Native people remained in North America. A photographer from Seattle, named Edward Curtis, undertook one of the greatest photographic odysseys ever when he set out to document North American Indians in the early 20th century. Today his work fetches record prices but Curtis died in obscurity, along with 100 million people from the Indigenous tribes of people who his photographs preserve as a memorial of their lives.

THE FOLLOWING VIDEO SHOW MANY MORE PHOTOS FROM THE EDWARD CURTIS COLLECTION: