Portraits and group photographs of Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Native Americans at and near the Rosebud Indian Agency, South Dakota and Forts Robinson and Niobrara, Nebraska. Also includes photographs of the United States 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee. Many of the photographs were taken by J.A. Anderson. Terms and language used on the photographs are representative of when the images/text were created and has not been replicated in this finding aid whenever possible.

Contains message of peace for the Native American chiefs to carry back from Washington to their tribes. Letter starts as follows: "My friends and children, chiefs of the Osages, Missouris, Kansas, Ottoes, Panis, Ayowas, Sioux, Pontewattamies, Foxes and Sacs." April 11, 1806.