The Indian Congress occurred from August 4 to October 31, 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska, in conjunction with the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. Occurring within a decade of the end of the Indian Wars, the Indian Congress was the largest gathering of American Indian tribes of its kind to that date.[1] Over 500 members of 35 different tribes attended, including the Apache medicine man Geronimo, who was being held at Fort Sill as a United States prisoner of war.[2]
Frank A. Rinehart's photographs of the Indian Congress participants are regarded as one of the best photographic documentations of American Indian leaders around the start of the 20th century.[3]
- ^ "About the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition" Archived 2008-12-10 at the Wayback Machine. Omaha Public Library. Retrieved 8/20/07.
- ^ "Indian Congress" Archived 2006-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Omaha Public Library. Retrieved 8/20/07.
- ^ "The Photographs of Frank Rinehart and Adolph Muhr: American Indian Portraits. 1898 - 1900," Haskell Indian Nations University. Retrieved 8/20/07. Archived July 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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