Buffalo Bill Posing With a Group of Pawnee Nation Leaders and Performers From His Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1885

This historic photograph depicts William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody alongside a delegation of Pawnee scouts and chiefs, taken around 1885 during a tour of his world-famous “Wild West” show.By 1885, the Indian Wars were drawing to a close, and Native Americans were being forced onto reservations.