A narrative account of the pioneering photographer's life-risking effort to document a disappearing North American Indian nation offers insight into the danger

"Chronicles the life of Edward S. Curtis and his 20-volume life's work, The North American Indian"--

A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of ÒvanishingÓ Indigenous peoples through dispossession of t

To what extent do we and can we understand others—other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the no

In the years 1900-1930, American photographer Edward S. Curtis realized his life’s work, the monumental twenty-volume book series The North American Indian (1