Progressive Era: 1890–1920s: Native Americans Fight for Land, Identity, & Education
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Photograph of White Deer Skin Dance, Hupa Tribe. ca. 1900. A. W. Ericson, Photographer. Photograph. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of A. W. Ericson.
This is a photograph of Hupa Indian men dressed for the white deerskin dance. The deerskin dance is a world renewal ceremony held sacred by Indian People who lived in northwest California. The ceremony was held in the Fall of the year. The intension of the deerskin dance was to give thanks, which would replenish and strengthen nature’s gifts to the Indian People, as well as rejuvenate the Indian People.