Rare Photos From The History Books You Have to See to Believe
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By Ami Ciccone
A Different Point of View
A lone Native American stands over a winding creek in 1868, surveying the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad in Nebraska. Little did he or his fellow tribespeople know that this project would slice its way through their homeland, and interrupt their ancestral hunting grounds.
The native peoples had handed over the rights to their land some years earlier… but the construction of this railroad proved devastating to their whole ecosystem. The bison population the Navajo depended on for food and clothing was decimated, and this early photo somehow captures that sense of despair.
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