Secretary of War Henry Knox.

The Cherokee nationalist "executed" for signing the treaty of New Echota.

Students at the Carlisle school, circa 1890.

Tom Torlino before and after his "education" at the Carlisle Industrial Indian School.

George Armstrong Custer as a West Point Cadet. He graduated last in his class in 1861.

The Lakota hero of the Little Big Horn.

The Paiute mystic responsible for the revival of the Ghost Dance during the 1890s.

This Frederic Remington illustration appeared in Harper's Weekly three weeks before Wounded Knee.

The corpse-strewn battlefield at Wounded Knee. This photographer identified this as the body of the "medicine man." According to many accounts, white soldiers panicked when the medicine man Yellow Bird began the Ghost Dance.