Photographs of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Photographs created by John Willis of individuals and events that document life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1993-2006

Images of events related to a memorial service and unveiling of the headstone for the gravesite of Albert O. Chips and Eva M. Chips, 2005, include documentation of a buffalo kill from the Oglala tribal herd for a memorial dinner, preparing an inipi (sweat lodge) ceremony, a wopila (giveaway) ceremony, and placement of a headstone in a cemetery

Images of memorial services during January 14-16, 2006, for Corporal Brett Lee Lundstrom, a United States Marine and the first Lakota-Teton Indian killed by small arms fire in Fallujah during the Iraq War, include the delivery of his body by a horse-drawn wagon through the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the gymnasium at the Little Wound School in Kyle, South Dakota, where his body laid in state under a ceremonial tipi

Informal portraits of identified individuals include Vern Sitting Bear, Victoria Chips, Tommy Crow, Gary Good Voice Elk, Wilbur Morrison, Orville Reddest, Leroy Reddest, Ashley Yellow Bull, Wendell Yellow Bull, and Delores Yellow Bull, in addition to portraits of unidentified or partially-identified children, women, and men

Several images document housing projects on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as well as views that include businesses, residences, vernacular signs, roads, and landscapes

Incidental images include a view of trailers at the graduation day powwow of Oglala Lakota College, a powwow at a school in Manderson, horse races in Batesland that include spectators and boys riding horses, and views of Badlands National Park