djon
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Some of you have photos of Native Americans in your Galleries...how about posting some links?
I've posted a couple... minilab stuff, I'm rescanning with Nikon.
I live two hours from Gallup, New Mexico ...which has been a terminal hellhole for Native Americans for over a century, only improving in the last couple of decades...I made some photos there recently, at an annual Intertribal Ceremonial (a large pow wow). Most of the people were Navajo, including the audience, but there were some Utes and some people from Acoma and other pueblos (entirely different culture).
I have a few Navajo friends from archery tournaments, but I've mostly refrained from photographing them, don't want to objectify. Ordinarily these are Levis-and-boots people, like anybody else out here. Pow wows present fine photo opportunites, but some moments and some dances are not OK for photography...and it's pretty much up to your sensitivity or their willingness to confront you to know what's good and what isn't. I made mistakes at this recent one. Some dances are of religious importance, most aren't so much for observers as for each other.
Likely at any pow wow is a "welcome dance" ... the audience, including white people, is invited to take part. Another is an "honor dance"...I was moved, several years ago, to have one done in appreciation of my promotion of white/Native archery tournaments near Crown Point, New Mexico.
Show us your Native American photos!
I've posted a couple... minilab stuff, I'm rescanning with Nikon.
I live two hours from Gallup, New Mexico ...which has been a terminal hellhole for Native Americans for over a century, only improving in the last couple of decades...I made some photos there recently, at an annual Intertribal Ceremonial (a large pow wow). Most of the people were Navajo, including the audience, but there were some Utes and some people from Acoma and other pueblos (entirely different culture).
I have a few Navajo friends from archery tournaments, but I've mostly refrained from photographing them, don't want to objectify. Ordinarily these are Levis-and-boots people, like anybody else out here. Pow wows present fine photo opportunites, but some moments and some dances are not OK for photography...and it's pretty much up to your sensitivity or their willingness to confront you to know what's good and what isn't. I made mistakes at this recent one. Some dances are of religious importance, most aren't so much for observers as for each other.
Likely at any pow wow is a "welcome dance" ... the audience, including white people, is invited to take part. Another is an "honor dance"...I was moved, several years ago, to have one done in appreciation of my promotion of white/Native archery tournaments near Crown Point, New Mexico.
Show us your Native American photos!
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