For a Love of His People

Description:

"Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, Poolaw began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next fifty years. When he sold his photos, he often stamped the reverse: 'A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.' Not simply by 'an Indian,' but a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal community, Poolaw's work celebrates his subjects' place in American life and preserves an insider's perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with--the Native America of the southern plains during the mid-twentieth century. [This book] is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw's daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University and carried on by Native scholars Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) and Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison"--

subjects: Indians of north america, great plains,  Indians of north america, pictorial works,  Documentary photography,  Photographers, biography,  Indians of north america, biography,  United states, pictorial works,  Canada, pictorial works,  United states, social life and customs,  Canada, social life and customs,  Indians of North America,  Pictorial works,  Exhibitions,  History,  Kiowa Indians,  Social life and customs,  Indian photographers,  Biography,  PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs,  HISTORY / Native American,  PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries