One of the challenges Indigenous people grapple with is confronting many stereotypes about identity, actions, speech, and attire. European authors and scholars, including Karl May and Joseph-François Lafitau, shaped the perceptions non-Indigenous people held about Indigenous communities.
Deskaheh likely encountered this, and it may explain why in many of his photographs he is seen wearing a War Bonnet, even though it isn’t a Hodinohsho:ni headdress. H. George