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A photograph of a house in construction on the right as well as a finished house next to it. There is a road next to the houses that goes through the forest with tall trees seen in the back.

A house made of Themeda. Outer cover. Cement base. Roof of coarse river grass, probably a Pennisetum. Inner wall of papyrus. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

House walks & Eucalyptus, cocoanut palms and mango in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]

Front page of HR 1223 - The Indian Self-Determination Amendments.

Front page of HR 1759 - The Indian Economic Development Act.

Front page of HR 3480 - Authorizing the establishment of the National Museum of the American Indian, within the Smithsonian Institution, and to establish a memorial to the American Indian, and for other purposes.

Front page of HR 39 - To provide for the designation and conservation of certain public lands in the state of Alaska, including the designation of units of the National Park, National Wildlife Refuge, National Forest, National Wild and Scenic Rivers,…

Front page of HR 4567 - To authorize and amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and for other purposes.

Front page of HR 4707 - To designate certain national forest lands in the State of Arizona as wilderness, and for other purposes.

Florence Lopez (daughter), Frances Manuel (mother), and Mildred Antone (daughter) are members of the Tohono O'Odham Nation. Here, they wear aprons as they prepare to cook for a party.

Tohono O'Odham Nation members Frances Manuel and John Antone. Hu'uli (Grandmother) basket weaving presentation with Big John. Frances Manuel presented basket weaving demonstration at schools in Tucson.

Two images of a woman taken from two different angles.

An image of a man lighting up a crack pipe.

An image of a man smoking a crack pipe.

A photograph of a hut covered with perennial gourd. Corn can be seen in the back and to the side of the hut with amaranthus in the foreground.

A photograph of huts made of banana leaf and aframomum. There are a pot, a basket, mortar, and banana trees around the huts.

A photograph of huts of the Batlhaping tribe of the Bechuanas. The roofs are thatched with tamboogu grass, held in place by small branches of lycium and usually a braid of ox hide around the bottom. They are often much thicker and made of sorghum…