| Details | The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis’s 20-volume collection of photographs and ethnography contains some of the finest images ever captured of Native Americans and the landscapes on which they practiced their traditional rites during the early 20th century. In recent years, though, Curtis has been accused of appropriating American Indian culture, manipulating and romanticizing his subjects, and transgressing the boundaries of the sacred. Humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson explores Curtis’s 30-year project of a lifetime and the questions it raises today. |
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