Sioux Ghost Dance

Sioux Ghost Dance
Staged by Thomas Edison's studio in 1896.

"The Ghost Dance movement was a religious belief system with Cargo Cult elements that combined Christian dogma with traditional beliefs and a yearning for the better days of bygone eras. It started in the 1860s and peaked in 1890. Government reaction to the movement was the brutal massacre at Wounded Knee."
-Andrew J. Morris

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Suffering Under a Great Injustice
by Ansel Adams


From the Library of Congress American Memory project:

"In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II.

In 'Suffering under a Great Injustice,' Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints.



This special presentation also reproduces the book "Born Free and Equal," published in 1944 by U.S. Camera, which includes a selection of Adams's Manzanar internment camp photographs along with a text by Adams.

In 1955, Ansel Adams wrote, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment. . . . All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use."

To learn more about the Japanese-American Internment Camps, we also recommend the following Web sites:

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites

Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives (JARDA)

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945

In The West - 2003

Expired realtor photograph - appropriated and digitally enhanced by M-Jakobsen
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Views of the Developing West from Space #4

Phoenix, Arizona (STS064_STS064-213-7)
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Views of the Developing West from Space #3

Night, Las Vegas, Nevada (ISS006-E-44112)
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In The West - 1984

Sedona, Arizona 1984. Sedona was not incorporated as a city until 1988. Photograph by M-Jakobsen
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Brains and Courage

Chief Joseph calls himself Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht, and the tribe is said to use Numepo as their preferred title, though nomenclature among Indians is a parlous thing, many names at the same time and different names at different epochs being the fashion with them individually and in the mass. He is a very high type of Indian as regards brains and courage, but he possesses many of the peculiarities of the savage. His eyes are dull and his features stolid as a rule, but if a bird passes, an animal makes a sound in the bush, an insect comes within earshot or eyesight, something happens in that vacant look. Things that we do not regard have hidden meanings to him, either in connection with the weather, or by reason of superstitions which link certain results with certain appearances, or because the sight of one animal or insect has to do with the presence or the absence of another. The sculptor says that only when some beast, bird, or insect was in sight did the old chief look the warrior and the Indian. When that was gone he relapsed into the apparently unthinking state of an animal, and showed very plainly that to remain in one position while the clay was modelling itself under the artist's fingers was a penance greater than to wait immovable for hours until game revealed itself or an enemy crept in sight.

from Harper's Weekly, August 16, 1890 Volume 34.

photograph by Edward S. Curtis

Restored Photos #1

Wheat Farmers, 1918

On Books

Two new books about the landscape of the American West will be published by Robert Adams; A Portrait in Landscapes & Pine Valley - to be released in January 2005 by Nazraeli Press in Tucson.
Nazraeli Press

Water in The West

May 2, 2004: Drought Settles In, Lake Shrinks and West's Worries Grow; By KIRK JOHNSON and DEAN E. MURPHY

Views of the Developing West from Space #2

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (STS034-72-50)
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Views of the Developing West from Space #1

EL CENTRO, MEXICALI, USA-CALIFORNIA (STS090-758-22)
Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
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