(AMERICAN INDIANS PHOTOGRAPHS) Photograph of a white man an

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(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Photograph of a white man and 6 Indians. Albumen print, 3 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, on plain mount; tack holes in mount corners; moderate toning and light soiling. Np, circa 1880s

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This uncaptioned and unidentified photograph is consigned from an old Nebraska family. It is thought to possibly show Thomas Henry Tibbles (1840-1928) with a group of Poncas. Tibbles was a Nebraskan journalist and advocate for Indian rights, best known for bringing the case of Standing Bear before the United States District Court in 1879, resulting in a landmark ruling that "an Indian is a person."