Haudenosaunee
Subtitle: Portraits of the Firekeepers, the Onondaga Nation
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780815605935
Subjects: Cultural studies; Indigenous peoples; Local history; Photographs: collections; Portraiture; Native Americans - Northeast; Social Science; Photography; Sociology; New York; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Individual Photographer; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; General; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Description: Toba Pato Tucker, who has photographed the Navajo in the Southwest, the Shinnecock and Montauk Indians on eastern Long Island, and the Pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona, now creates a record of the Onondaga Nation, the Native people who have inhabited the hills of central New York for fifteen thousand years. Using a simple black backdrop and available daylight, her portraits show the timeless contemplative images that reify the spirit that has maintained the Onondaga for centuries.