85 REAL Photos of the Most FEARED Native American Warriors of the Wild West — Who They Were

Eighty-five real photographs of the most feared Native American warriors of the Wild West, from the Dakota War in Minnesota in 1862 to the last chiefs of the twentieth century: Lakota, Dakota, Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Apache, Nez Perce and Ute. Red Cloud, who closed the Bozeman Trail. Quanah Parker, son of a captive white girl, at Adobe Walls. Sitting Bull, Gall and Rain-in-the-Face, and the men of the Seventh Cavalry who rode out of Fort Abraham Lincoln with Custer and never came back. Geronimo, from the Sierra Madre to the Saint Louis World's Fair. Chief Joseph's surrender forty miles from Canada. The Ghost Dance, the death of Sitting Bull and Wounded Knee. And what came after: Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the Osage oil murders and Lone Wolf versus Hitchcock. None of these images is AI or a reconstruction. They are archive photographs, newspaper engravings, a Cheyenne ledger drawing and period prints. Edward Curtis staged his portraits, and the video says so. When a photo has never been proven, the video says that too. Full credits for every image (author, license and link) in the pinned comment. Music composed for this video.