Dust Maker of the Ponca Tribe
Frank Rinehart, a photographer who dedicated himself to snapping photos of Native Americans and documenting their daily lives took this photo of Dust Maker, aka Pete Mitchell of the Ponca tribe, in 1898. Dust Maker posed for the camera while attending a massive Native American gathering known as Nebraska’s Omaha Indian Congress. Rinehart’s agenda was to help non-Native Americans understand indigenous people a little better with the photographs he had taken.