Around the turn of the twentieth century, most photographs of Indians pandered to shameless, insensitive stereotypes. In contrast, photographic portraits made by Frank A. Rinehart conveyed the dignity and pride of Native peoples. More than 545 Native Americans representing tribes from all over the country attended the TransMississippi and International Exposition in Omaha in 1898 to be part of an event known as the Indian Congress. Rinehart, the expositions official photographer, and his assistant Adolph Muhr made more than 500 glassplate negatives depicting Native Americans in their traditional dress, now housed at Haskell Indian Nations University and regarded as one of the best photographic documentations of Indian leaders from this era.This book provides an unusual perspective on the Rinehart collection. It features one hundred outstanding images printed from the original negatives made by Rinehart and Muhr at the Congress and over the course of the next two years. It also includes 14 essays by modern Native American writers, artists, and educatorssome of them descendants of the individuals photographedreflecting on the place of these images in their heritage.Beyond the Reach of Time and Change is not another coffeetable book of historical Indian photographs but rather a conversation between Indian people of a century ago and today. Just as the Rinehart collection offers todays Native Americans a unique connection to the past, this book offers all readers a positive...

Binding: Paperback;172 pages; Publisher: University of Arizona Press; Classification: AJB; Weight: 788 g; Dimensions: 266 x 216 x 11

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