Native American Portraits 1862-1918

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Summary: a great tribute
Review: I found this book wandering through B-Daltons about a year ago. It is by far a work of a master. The pictures featured in this book are ones that I have not been able to find anywhere else. Nancy Hathaway has put together a great tribute book. I love the pictures within the pages of this book, it's a great gift for yourself or a friend interested in Anthropology, Native American Studies, or just for the coffee table. I LOVE THIS BOOK. I look at it everyday and truly have some favorite pictures!

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Summary: A Beautiful, Moving Book
Review: I loved Native American Portraits. Hathaway captured beautifully the turbulence and tragedy of the time and the photographs are truly distinctive.

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Summary: A Beautiful, Moving Book
Review: I was so angry at just reading the front flap that I didn't purchase the book. These descriptions of Native culture "captured" by the camera just before it "dissappeared forever" and culture on a 'precipitous decline' are dangerously innaccurate and paint us as a vanished people with no past or present effect on society. The author should have been more careful in constructing this summary, or in relegating the duty to someone else so dramatic and ignorant.

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Summary: front flap sets a dangerous tone
Review: I was so angry at just reading the front flap that I didn't purchase the book. These descriptions of Native culture "captured" by the camera just before it "dissappeared forever" and culture on a 'precipitous decline' are dangerously innaccurate and paint us as a vanished people with no past or present effect on society. The author should have been more careful in constructing this summary, or in relegating the duty to someone else so dramatic and ignorant.

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Summary: front flap sets a dangerous tone
Review: I was so angry at just reading the front flap that I didn't purchase the book. These descriptions of Native culture "captured" by the camera just before it "dissappeared forever" and culture on a 'precipitous decline' are dangerously innaccurate and paint us as a vanished people with no past or present effect on society. The author should have been more careful in constructing this summary, or in relegating the duty to someone else so dramatic and ignorant.