The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hulstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph
History
[Detail] Likely taken by Job V. Harrison near Rock Lake, N.D. 190?
5) Native Americans
While by the end of the nineteenth century the nation had become an advanced industrialized society, it was also still absorbed in conquering a continent, with settlers streaming to isolated farms in the West as Native Americans were pushed off their homeland. The collection's Special Presentation of "Native Americans" in the "North Dakota Historical Overview" provides information about the history of Native Americans of the Great Plains, while a few of the collection's pictures document a particularly difficult chapter in their history. These images are found by searching Indians, bison, and rosebud. Viewed along with images of settlement, they facilitate discussion of the costs of settlement in the depletion of natural resources, the threat this posed to the Native American way of life, and the forced removal of these people from their homeland.
