This month, I am thinking about historic photographs of Indigenous women, and how both the persistence and plight of contemporary Indigenous women is reflected backwards through time in photographs taken more than 100 years ago.
Author: Devorah Romanek
Devorah Romanek is anthropologist and visual culture expert, currently Head of Interpretation at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. In addition to recent publication of her book, she also established a growing online education project regarding the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, with materials free to download at Stonewallfiftyfifty.org.