Science Source Stock Photo - Native American Assiniboine Indians, 1830s

Native American Assiniboine Indians, 1830s

Description: The Assiniboine are a First Nations/Native American people originally from the Northern Great Plains of North America. They suffered epidemics with high mortality, most notably smallpox among the Assiniboine. The Assiniboine population crashed from around 10,000 people in the late 18th century to around 2600 by 1890. Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique du Nord, exécuté pendant les années 1832-34. Karl Bodmer (February 11, 1809 - October 30, 1893) was a Swiss printmaker, lithographer, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition. Bodmer was hired as an artist to record images of cities, rivers, towns and peoples they saw along the way, including the many tribes of Native Americans along the Missouri River and in that region.

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Library of Congress/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS21572655

Type: Image

Size: 3102px × 4350px (~38 MB)

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