Photography & Digital Art,HistoryAPR 15, 2016

47 Rare Colour Photos Of Native Americans From The 19th And 20th Century

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Film-maker Paul Ratner developed a passion for researching old photographs of indigenous people while making "Moses on the Mesa", a film about a German-Jewish immigrant who fell in love with a Native-American woman and became governor of her tribe of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico in the late 1800s.

“What has been most gratifying to me about researching old photos of Native Americans is when the relatives of the people featured in the photos discover them through our popular Facebook page," Ratner told Bored Panda. "Many of them have never seen these photos and are excited to find them. It is also exciting when folks correctly identify the people and the tribes pictured in the photos since the archives or vintage photo auctions often have incorrect or incomplete information. I feel like through this process we are reclaiming some lost history.”

#1 Minnehaha. 1904

#2 Bone Necklace. Oglala Lakota Chief. 1899. Photo By Heyn Photo

#3 Blackfeet Tribal Camp With Grazing Horses. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock

#4 Eagle Arrow. A Siksika Man. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock

#5 Blackfeet Girl. Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide By Walter Mcclintock

#6 Chief James A. Garfield. Jicarilla Apache. 1899. Photo By William Henry Jackson

#7 "Painted Tipis Of The Headmen". Blackfeet. Montana. Early 1900s. By Walter Mcclintock

#8 Arrowmaker, An Ojibwe Man. 1903

#9 "Ringing Bell". 1908. Minnesota. Handpainted Photo Print By Roland W. Reed

#10 Handpainted Print Of A Young Woman By The River. Early 1900s. Photo By Roland W. Reed

#11 Charles American Horse (the Son Of Chief American Horse). Oglala Lakota. 1901. Photo By William Herman Rau

#12 Chief Little Wound And Family. Oglala Lakota. 1899. Photo By Heyn Photo

#13 Cheyenne Chief Wolf Robe. Color Halftone Reproduction Of A Painting From A F. A. Rinehart Photograph. 1898

#14 ”In Summer”. Kiowa. 1898. Photo By F.a. Rinehart

#15 “Songlike”, A Pueblo Man, 1899. Photo By F.a. Rinehart

#16 Walks-in-the-water (soya-wa-awachkai) And Her Baby Koumiski (round Face). Siksika. Montana. Ear

#17 Amos Two Bulls. Lakota. Photo By Gertrude Käsebier

#18 She Who Travels In The Sky. Ojibwe. 1908. Photo By Roland Reed

#19 Northern Plains Man On An Overlook. Montana. Early 1900s. Hand-colored Photo By Roland W. Reed

#20 Blackfeet Children (including "sa-ko-uka-etsusin"). Montana. Early 1900s. Glass Lantern Slide B