Title: The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council. A Record in Picture and Story of the Last Great Indian Council, Participated in by Eminent Indian Chiefs from Nearly Every Indian Reservation in the United States, together with the Story of Their Lives As Told by Themselves -- Their Speeches and Folklore Tales -- Their Solemn Farewell and the Indians' Story of the Custer Fight
Author: Joseph K. Dixon
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
City: Garden City, New York
Year: 1914
Printing Information: Second Edition
Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: xviii/231 pages
Width: 7.5" Height: 10.25"
Book Details: Between 1908 and 1913, Rodman Wanamaker sponsored three photographic expeditions to the American Indians intended to document a vanishing way of life and make the Indian "first-class citizens" to save them from extinction. At that time, Indians were viewed as a "Vanishing Race," and efforts were made to bring them increasingly into the mainstream of American life, often at the expense of their culture and traditions. Joseph K. Dixon was the photographer. On the first expedition, he made many portraits and captured scenes of Indian life. Dixon published them in a book, "The Vanishing Race." Sadly, original copies of the book are becoming scarce as people break it up to sell the photographs individually. The expedition climaxed on the Crow Indian Reservation with the filming of a motion picture about Hiawatha. The second expedition in 1909 involved a motion filming a reenactment of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

The third expedition, the "Expedition of Citizenship," took place in 1913. For it, the American flag was carried to many tribes, and their members were invited to sign a declaration of allegiance to the United States. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia)
Condition / Notes: This is stated revised second edition of this work, "illustrated with eighty photogravures of Indian chiefs and Indian life."

This antique volume is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Ornamental designs stamped in white, black and brown, offering Native American motifs, appear on the spine and front cover. The book shows moisture markings to the lower outside quadrant of the rear cover. The binding is sound. Previous owners' names appear at the top of the front flyleaf. The interior is clean and bright.

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