The Vanishing Race - The Last Great Indian Council - A Record In Picture And Story Of The Last Great Indian Council

The noted photographer Joseph Dixon followed his inaugural 1908 expedition to Montana with a second journey in 1909 for a meeting of “what was expected to be the Last Great Indian Council.” Dixon and his partner, financier Rodman Wannamaker, “believed, like so many of their contemporaries, that the traditional American Indian was destined to disappear… It was time to gather the last generation to tell their stories for Dixon’s book, The Vanishing Race… Representatives from nearly every reservation were assembled.