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Photo of Ancient Stone Implements from the San Juan River Valley [ca. 1875] from the Princeton University Library

Zuni Olla from the John Wesley Powell Collection of Pueblo Pottery at Illinois Wesleyan University

"Eagle and mudhead kachinas" by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie from the Claremont Colleges Digital Library

"If Only We Could Have Our Stories Told" by Jane Ash Poitras from Library and Archives Canada

"Map of the Ili of Kaʻelepulu, Kailua, Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu" 1883, from the AVA Konohiki map collections

Birchbark Box [ca. 1780-1800] from Library and Archives Canada

Coast Salish glass whorl "Returning Salmon" from the Penn Museum

Dakota language reader illustration by Oscar Howe, from the Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Detail of wampum belts, from the Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. 1897-1965

First 29 Navajo U.S. Marine Corps code-talker recruits being sworn in, from the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999

Journal of Assistant Agent William Colquhoun during Choctaw Removal in1832, from the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Kiowa Anko calendar on buckskin [ca. 1871 - ca. 1907], from the records of the Smithsonian Institution

Kwagiutl Family Portrait (1991) by David Neel, from Library and Archives Canada

Photograph of a drawing illustrating Washoe life and legends from the Huntington Library's George W. Ingalls Photograph Collection

Tlaloc glyph from the Mesoweb online database of Rubbings by Merle Greene Robertson ©Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1995-2007

Tlingit Chilkat blanket from the Fowler Museum at UCLA