description, [>], [>]
government (U.S.) and, [>], [>], [>]
Indians on, [>]
Kwakiutl tribe, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
missionaries on, [>]
Volume IX and, [>]
Prettiest Children in America contest (1904), [>]–[>], [>]
Progress of Love, The (Fragonard), [>]
Pueblo, [>]
Putnam, F. W., [>]–[>]
Quimby, George, [>]
racism and skull size, [>]
Rainier Club/Curtis
joining, [>]
moving into, [>], [>]
payment for, [>], [>]
Rainier, Mount
description, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
national park designation, [>]
Native Americans and, [>]
Nisqually Glacier, [>], [>]
See also Mazamas and Mount Rainier
Rainier, Mount, and Curtis
Camp Muir, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
experience/knowledge, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
lost climbers and, [>]–[>], [>]
Mazamas, [>]–[>]
photography, [>]
visit (1917), [>]
Raphael, [>], [>], [>]
Red Hawk (Sioux), [>]
Red Thunder (Nez Perce), [>], [>], [>]
Reno, Marcus, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Review of Reviews, [>]
rhinophyma, [>]–[>]
Riis, Jacob, [>]
Rinehart, Frank, [>]
Ronald, J. T., [>]–[>]
Roosevelt, Alice
description, [>]
wedding/pictures, [>], [>]
Roosevelt, Archibald, [>], [>]
Roosevelt, Edith, [>], [>], [>]
Roosevelt, Kermit, [>]
Roosevelt, Nicholas, [>]
Roosevelt Obstacle Walk, [>]–[>]
Roosevelt, Quentin, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Roosevelt, Theodore
Bull Moose ticket (1912), [>], [>]
Burroughs and, [>]
conservation, [>], [>]
Day’s complaints to, [>]
death, [>]
Geronimo and, [>]
Grinnell and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
1904 election, [>]
1905 inauguration, [>], [>]
Panama Canal, [>], [>]
as peace broker, [>]
Pinchot and, [>], [>], [>], [>]
ranching in the Dakotas, [>]
Rough Riders, [>], [>]
Russia/Japan territory conflict, [>]
Seattle trip (1904), [>]
Supreme Court decision and, [>], [>]
trusts/wealth concentrations and, [>], [>], [>]
views on Indians, [>], [>]
Roosevelt, Theodore/Curtis
African trip and, [>]
Carnegie and, [>]
Custer investigations, [>]–[>], [>]
customs/culture of East, [>]
daughter’s wedding pictures, [>]
Indian portfolio/support request, [>]–[>]
Leupp and, [>]
Morgan’s financial support and, [>], [>]
1905 inauguration, [>]–[>]
North American Indian, The (Curtis), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
photo of president, [>], [>]
president’s endorsement letter, [>]–[>]
president’s support and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Sagamore Hill home visit, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
salad dressing recipe and, [>], [>]
Upshaw’s Washington trip, [>]–[>]
the West and, [>]–[>]
Roosevelt, Theodore/family
Curtis and children, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
Curtis family photos and, [>]
Curtis photos of children and, [>], [>]
exercise and, [>]–[>]
guest rules, [>], [>]
pets, [>]
play, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Sagamore Hill home, [>], [>]–[>]
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., [>]
Rothi and Curtis, Photographers, [>]
Rough Riders, [>], [>]
Russell, Walter, [>], [>]
Sacagawea, [>]
Sacred Legacy (Momaday), [>]
Sacred Turtles, The (Curtis), [>]
Sagamore Mohannis, [>]
Salish
Coast people, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Interior people, [>]
Satterlee, Louise, [>], [>]
Schwinke, Edmund
background, [>]
Columbia tribes and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
leaving Curtis, [>]–[>]
motion-picture work, [>]
Scribner’s Magazine, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Seattle, Chief
death/customs, [>]
descendants, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Princess Angeline and, [>]–[>], [>]
tribes of, [>]
words of, [>]–[>], [>]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Seattle Star, [>], [>], [>]
Seattle Times
Blethen and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Curtis project and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
description, [>]
on football game (1904), [>]–[>]
Seattle area
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909), [>]
changes to environment, [>]
Curtis studio move (1916), [>]
description (1904), [>]
George Vancouver and, [>]
weather/description, [>], [>]–[>]
See also specific individuals
Sherriff, Ellen, [>]
See also Curtis, Ellen
Shore of Shoalwater Bay (Curtis), [>]
Sikyaletstiwa, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Sioux
art, [>]
Black Hills/gold and, [>]
Crow and, [>]–[>], [>]
description/reputation, [>], [>]
Ghost Dance, [>]
hunger/starvation, [>]–[>]
North American Indian, The, Volume III, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
populations, [>]
Rosebud Sioux Nation, [>]
treaty and, [>]–[>]
Wounded Knee massacre, [>], [>]
See also Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876); specific individuals
Sioux/Curtis
beginning of work, [>]
food for Sioux, [>], [>]
project and, [>], [>]
Sioux name, [>]
See also Battle of the Little Bighorn story/Curtis
Sioux Uprising/aftermath, [>]–[>], [>]
Sitting Bull, [>]
Skinner, Alanson, [>]
skull size and racism, [>]
Slow Bull’s wife, [>]
Small Leggins, [>], [>], [>]
Smith, Henry A., [>]
Smithsonian Institution
Bureau of American Ethnology, [>]–[>]
Congress and finances, [>]
Smithsonian Institution/Curtis
Arizona map, [>]
“experts’” doubts/misinformation, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
information on project, [>]
presentation/funding request (1904), [>]–[>], [>]
request (1907), [>]
Yeibichai Dance and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Smoky Day at the Sugar Bowl, A—Hupa (Curtis), [>]
Snake Dance ceremony
audiences, [>]–[>]
description, [>]–[>]
Snake Dance ceremony/Curtis
film presentation (Seattle, 1904), [>]–[>]
missionaries/government agents watching and, [>]
moving pictures of, [>], [>]
participation, [>]–[>], [>]
Sikyaletstiwa and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Snake Dancer in Costume (Curtis), [>]
Snake Priest (Curtis), [>
]
Snake Society, [>], [>]
Southwest
Curtis’s views on, [>]
description, [>]
See also specific Indian groups
Steichen, Edward, [>], [>]
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, [>]
St. Helens, Mount/Indians photo (1898), [>]–[>], [>]
Stieglitz, Alfred, [>], [>], [>]
St. Louis World’s Fair (1904), [>]
stock market crash (1929), [>]
“Story of a Vanishing Race, The” (Curtis)
Brooklyn Institute, [>]
Carnegie Hall presentation, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Curtis’s daughter and, [>]
finances and, [>]–[>], [>]
Greene and, [>]–[>]
Indians and religion, [>]–[>]
Morgan and, [>]
music and, [>], [>], [>]
Osborn and, [>], [>], [>]
as picture opera/description, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
praise for, [>]–[>]
preparation, [>], [>]
Seattle (1912), [>]–[>]
tour, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“vanishing” theme and, [>]
Washington presentation, [>]
Story Telling—Apache (Curtis), [>]–[>]
Strouse, Jean, [>], [>]–[>]
Sun Dance ceremony
Curtis and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
description, [>]
government agents/missionaries and, [>], [>]
importance, [>]
newspaper interview, [>]
Piegan/Blackfeet and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Sun Dodgers, University of Washington, [>]
Sunset in Navajo Land (Curtis), [>]
Suquamish people, [>], [>], [>]
Swallow, Silas, [>]
Taft, William Howard, [>], [>], [>]
Tarzan movies, [>], [>]
Tewa people, [>]
Three Chiefs, The (Curtis), [>]–[>]
Tlingit people/Alaska expedition
chant recordings, [>]
scientists plundering, [>]–[>], [>]
Tocqueville, Alexis de, [>]
tuberculosis, [>], [>]
Tulalip Indians, [>]–[>], [>]
Typical Nez Perce (Curtis), [>]
Umatilla people, [>], [>]
Unity Magazine, [>]
Upshaw, Alexander (Crow)
argument with government agent, [>]–[>]
assimilation/conflict and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
background, [>], [>]
Battle of Little Bighorn investigation/story, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Crow volume and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Curtis payment to, [>]
Curtis relationship, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Dalby and, [>], [>], [>]
death/murder, [>]
defending Crow people, [>], [>]
family of, [>], [>]
father, [>]
Indian boarding school, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Mandan/Hidatsa and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Meany and, [>]
reputation, [>]–[>]
Roosevelt and, [>]–[>]
Washington trip with Curtis, [>]–[>]
whites and, [>], [>], [>]
winter writing retreat (1908), [>]–[>], [>]
Upshaw–Apsaroke (Curtis), [>], [>]
Vancouver, George, [>]
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, [>]
Vanishing Race (Curtis), [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Variety, [>]–[>]
Victoria (steamer), [>]–[>]
Village of Nootka (Curtis), [>]
Village Scene–Neah Bay (Curtis), [>]–[>]
Walcott, Charles, [>]
Walla Walla people, [>], [>]
Walpi Maidens—Hopi (Curtis), [>]
Walpi Man, A (Curtis), [>]–[>]
Washington Academy of Science, [>]
Washington Historical Society, [>]
Washington Post, [>], [>]
Washington Times, [>]
White Calf, Chief of the Blackfeet
Curtis and, [>], [>], [>]
description, [>], [>]
posing for Curtis, [>]
rescuing Curtis, [>]
White Man Runs Him (Crow), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Wichita people, [>], [>]
Wilbur Peebo—Comanche (Curtis), [>], [>]
Willapa people, [>]
Wilson’s Photographics, [>], [>]
Wisham people, [>]–[>], [>]
Woman and Child (Curtis), [>], [>]
Woodruff, Charles A., [>]
World War I, [>], [>]
Wounded Knee massacre (1890), [>], [>]
Yeibichai Dance of Navajo, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Yeibichai Sweat (Curtis), [>]
York (black slave), [>]
Young, Weldon, [>]
Zuni people, [>], [>], [>]
About the Author
TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and the author of six books. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Washington State Book Award. His previous books include The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. He is an online op-ed columnist for the New York Times, writing his "Opinionator" feature once a week.He is a third-generation Westerner and lives in Seattle.
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