For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw /

"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 mi...

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Corporate Author: National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Contributors: Mithlo, Nancy Marie, (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword /
  • Kevin Gover and Tim Johnson
  • Preface: Family Pictures/Family Stories /
  • Martha Sandweiss
  • Introduction: The Transcendence of the Everyday /
  • John Haworth
  • Insider Knowledge /
  • Tom Jones
  • "An Age of Pictures More than Words" : Theorizing Early American Indian Photography /
  • Ned Blackhawk
  • Breaking the Bounds of Documentation /
  • David Grant Noble
  • For a Love of His People /
  • Linda Poolaw
  • Reflections /
  • Richard Ray Whitman
  • Why Horace Poolaw's Indians Won't Vanish /
  • David W. Penney
  • Horace Poolaw : "Pictures by an Indian" /
  • Nancy Marie Mithlo
  • Fancy /
  • John Poolaw
  • Planes, Flags, and Automobiles : Horace Poolaw's American Legacy /
  • Cheryl Finley
  • Beaded Buckskins and Bad-Girl Bobs : Kiowa Female Identity, Industry, and Activism in Horace Poolaw's Portraits /
  • Laura Smith
  • Justin Poolaw Comes to Visit [+ untitled reflections] /
  • Vanessa Jennings
  • Afterword
  • This is My Family /
  • Dane Poolaw
  • Appendix A: Horace Poolaw Biography /
  • Laura Smith
  • Appendix B: Kiowa names and their phonetic spellings
  • Checklist
  • Contributors.