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The “Cherokee Kid,” as he was known, was born in 1879 in Indian Territory near modern-day Oologah, Okla.

Mr. Modi had been posing for a series of pictures to highlight the beachy natural beauty of the islands called Lakshadweep, an Indian territory 150 miles from the mainland and just 100 miles north of the Maldives.

Though India has gained road, river and train access via Bangladesh to transport goods to its north-eastern states, critics say Dhaka is still not able to do full-fledged overland trade with landlocked Nepal and Bhutan across the Indian territory.

Before any of that could take place, however, a tribe would have to take the land in question into trust as sovereign Indian territory.

“I think of it as a reminder that we’re all living on Indian Territory.”