This is a real hand-colored photograph by Roland W. Reed, with the color added by Johannes Anderson. Reed took it in the Glacier country of Montana around 1912. The mark at the lower right, Reed, colors by J. Anderson, matches the print.
The people are Piikani (pee-GAH-nee), the Piegan band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. In Montana they are the Amskapi Piikani (um-SKAH-pee pee-GAH-nee), often called the Blackfeet. The man on the ledge and the woman beside the lodge are not named on the surviving label. A second lodge stands farther along the ridge. Lake water and the peaks close the view, the usual setting of Reed’s Piegan work from his Kalispell years, about 1909 to 1915.
Reed was after the romantic picture, not a casual record of camp. Born in Wisconsin in 1864, he opened a studio in Kalispell in 1909, near the west entrance of what became Glacier National Park in 1910. He paid Blackfeet models, placed the lodges, and coached the pose so the scene would suggest an older way of life against the mountains. He said of another 1912 Piegan picture that his subjects rode past the camera many times before they forgot he was there. Writers of the time used his photographs, and the Great Northern Railway used this kind of image in its See America First promotion. Anderson, a Danish painter in that same Kalispell circle, hand-colored a number of the prints.
So the photograph, the tribe, the place, and the two makers are authentic. The quiet is arranged.