Antique Print of Tokacou Yankton Sioux Warrior by McKenney, 1836

Sioux Chief Portrait – Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, Native American Lithograph c.1838 This compelling hand-colored lithograph portrays Esh-Ta-Hum-Leah, a Sioux chief, and originates from the re...

Antique print titled 'H'Co-A-H'Co-A-H'Cotes-Min'. Lithograph of a flat head warrior. This print originates from 'Histoire Naturelle de l’homme Comprenant de...

Antique costume print titled 'Maxourounas'. Original antique print of a Brazilian warrior. This print originates from 'Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuples du monde' by Aug...

Antique print titled 'Wha-Ro-Nee-Sah'. Lithograph of the chief of the Otoe tribe. This print originates from 'Histoire Naturelle de l’Homme Comprenant des recherches sur L’influence ...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Tah-Ro-Hon, An Ioway Warrior", lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a painting by Charles Bird King and published by Rice and Hart & Co. in Philadelphia in 1848. For his portrait Tah-Ro-Hon is wearing a feathered multicolored headdress, long ornamental earrings, a chain necklace, a presidential piece medal on a ribbon necklace and he holds a multicolored staff with feathers. This original McKenney and Hall hand-colored lithograph is printed on a sheet measuring 10" high and 7" wide. There is a tiny spot of red paint adjacent to a red feather hanging...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithographic portrait of a Native American entitled "Wa-Na-Ta, Grand Chief of the Sio...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Not-Chi-Mi-Ne, An Ioway Chief ",...

This is an original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithographic portrait of a Native American entitled "Tah-Chee, A Cherokee Chief", from McKenney and Hall's 'History of the Indian Tribes of North America'. It was lithographed by J. T. Bowen after a painting by Charles Bird King and published by E. C. Biddle in Philadelphia in 1838. Tahchee's name translates to Dutch in Cherokee, and he became known as William Dutch. He was born in 1790 in the Cherokee Nation, which is now in a portion of Alabama. Tahchee became known as a skilled warrior and leader among his people, and he was eventually appointed as a chief of the Cherokee Nation "Old Settlers". During his time as chief, Tahchee was a rival of the Osage people and he worked to protect the Cherokee people and their land from encroachment by white settlers. He was a strong advocate for maintaining Cherokee sovereignty and cultural traditions, even as pressure mounted from the United States government to remove the Cherokee from their ancestral lands. In 1838, Tahchee and many other Cherokee people were forcibly removed from their homes in what is known as the Trail of Tears...