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"For the Lakota, kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them.  ... From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things --  and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man...." ~ Luther Standing Bear (Ota Kte, Mochunozhin),  (1868-1939) Lakota chief American Photo, Wilde Westen, American Men, Indian History, Native American History, Native American Culture, American Culture, American People, Sioux

"For the Lakota, kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. ... From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things -- and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man...." ~ Luther Standing Bear (Ota Kte, Mochunozhin), (1868-1939) Lakota chief

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An Oasis in the Badlands, 1905. Edward S Curtis, Edward Curtis, Palm Springs Art, Sitting Bull, American Photo, Genghis Khan, American Photography, The Old West, Native American History

A new book and exhibition select the best of the best from one of the great achievements in photographic history. His is one of the most well-known stories in the history of photography. His body of work is also one of photography’s greatest achievements. Edward S. Curtis spent most of his working life documenting what he feared were vanishing peoples, risking — and losing — nearly everything to see his opus, The North American Indian, to completion. More than a century later, his legendary…

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