Photographs created by John Willis of individuals and events that document life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 2009, and related material, Many images document the Yellow Bull family and their home in Pine Ridge. Several images depict Andrea Reddest and Duane Reddest, as well as the Reddest family home and land at Lost Dog Creek. Other portraits include Ashley Bull Man, Gwen Bull Man, Sarah Ghostman, Karen Weasel Bear, John Swallow, and David Swallow, Jr. Portraits of unidentified individuals include residents of a housing development in Kyle, as well as a man inside a restaurant in Kadoka, Images of built landscapes include a housing development in Wanblee, a cemetery in Yellow Bear Canyon, and the Badlands National Park during the winter. Images of structures at Potato Creek, near Interior, South Dakota, include powwow grounds and the Potato Creek Episcopal Church. There is also a view of KILI Radio at Porcupine Butte. A group of photographs depicts interior views of the Stroppel Inn and Main Street in Midland, Many photographs depict roads and highways in the vicinity of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Panoramas in the collection include views of Wanblee, Badlands National Park, and Yellow Bear Canyon. Several of the panoramas are collages with historic images, The collection includes a draft dummy volume for Views from the Rez (University of Chicago Press, 2010) which consists of photographs by Willis of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the region, which he compiled March 2009. The volume also contains an essay by Kent Nerburn, as well as poetry and observations by Oglala Indians, and Two audio compact disks, Heartbeat of the Rez, consist of recordings in Lakota and English of spoken word, traditional songs, and contemporary music
Description:
John Willis is a documentary photographer and an instructor of photography at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont., Title devised by cataloger., In 7 boxes., and Photographs signed by the photographer on verso with accompanying manuscript captions.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Badlands National Park (S.D.), Kyle (S.D.), Lost Dog Creek (S.D.), Midland (S.D.), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.), Yellow Bear Canyon (S.D.), South Dakota, and Wanblee (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Willis, John, 1957-, Yellow Bull, Delores, and Stroppel Inn
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Oglala Indians, and Public housing
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, and 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
Description:
John Willis is a documentary photographer and an instructor of photography at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont., Title devised by cataloger., Photographs signed by the photographer on verso with accompanying manuscript captions., and Several of the images occur as different sizes of photographic prints.
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Badlands National Park (S.D.), Batesland (S.D.), Kyle (S.D.), Manderson (S.D.), and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Chips, Albert O., 1901-1966, Chips, Eva M., 1908-1958, Chips, Victoria, Crow, Tommy, Good Voice Elk, Gary, Lundstrom, Brett Lee, Morrison, Wilbur, Reddest, Leroy, Reddest, Orville, Sitting Bear, Vern, Willis, John, 1957-, Yellow Bull, Ashley, Yellow Bull, Delores, Yellow Bull, Wendell, and Oglala Lakota College
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Indians of North America, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Casualties, Oglala Indians, Powwows, Public housing, Sweatbaths, and Teton Indians
