I imagine she got some pretty shitty treatment for her audacity.

Stunning!

Wow that gown is gorgeous! The person's mom looks amazing in it, and so happy.

What a great photo!

what a gorgeous smile!

I feel like it's rare to see someone smiling in a photo of this age. It's lovely.

You don't see a lot of people smiling in photos that old. This is beautiful.

Beautiful

i swear she looks just like a middle school girl! (ofc she basically is!)

I am a member of the Kiowa

she's beautiful

Is that her name in the bottom left hand corner?

Glowing with pride.

She's absolutely beautiful. What an amazing pic!

She is beautiful, all that native history in this photo make me want to cry. Everything is hand made that she's wearing. There's no greater history than that.

She looks beautiful!

I sadly wonder if that smile was genuine or practiced.

She's just pure childhood happiness. I mean her face is so beautiful and happy and she could be any teenage girl right now laughing while hanging out with her friends. That human emotion on her face crosses any gender, race, religion, and time. Everyone can relate to how she's feeling in that moment.

I love the native dresses that they wore. Too bad these cultures have been forgotten...

Hokahé! It’s nice to see some indigenous representation

Beautiful. Somethings we should never lose.

Her smile is so bright

beautiful smile. Usually the people look extremly serious on photo of that era

She looks like 1994, happy healthy georgous smile, dress! Leigh from Delaware

Apache!! However "Apache" considered a title & NOT the tribal name.

Beautiful

Enchanting!!!

I didn’t know it was physically possible to smile in a picture back then.

Lovely to see someone of that era smiling, they're normally so solemn.

She's so pretty. She looks like my 16yo daughter

This is so cool! I never see photos this old with people actually smiling!

"Princess Standing Fox"

Beautiful

Beautiful!

What a gorgeous smile.

I've seen this picture colorized and it's beautiful.

another beautiful young lady

Pretty child :)

She looks so happy!!

The picture is beautiful, but in my opinion, the term "Native American" is derogatory because it implies that the land is America and belongs to America even though it was inhabited by Indigenous peoples way before settlers came over. It also says that they are not their own people, but Americans. No one identified as "American" until settlers stumbled upon it by accident and claimed it for themselves, calling it America.

The belt buckle and the socks are telling me it's one of those old-time faux portrait studio portraits. It took a very long time to take a photo back then, 20 minutes or longer just to get the set up correct smiling for that long like that would make your face hurt. The is the reason why you rarely see people smiling like that in old photos. She's also not standing in a field or something like that but instead as a painted wall behind her. While it's not impossible for that to have occurred usually natural light worked better for photography purposes in that time period so I doubt this is the real story behind this photo and it more than likely is a fake.

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this is in no way real. no one smiled for photos that long ago.. it took a while to take a pic..you just stood there.

Goodness, what a beauty.

Aaand still protesting dress code!

The doggo's face is adorable :)

You can feel the fabulousness radiating from this photo

Aaaaaw. Sweet homecoming. POW Singapore must have been a nightmare. Changi was brutal.