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When a Historian Saw This Haunting Photograph of a Nameless Native Girl, She Decided She Had to Identify Her
Sophie Mousseau is identified simply as “Arapaho” on one version of the photo and “Dakota” on another. National Anthropological Archives / Smithsonian Institution As a scholar of 19th-century American photography, I’ve looked at countless old …