Roland Reed
Jan 21, 2020
3 minutes
—Wendy Wilkinson
Y THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE AMERICANS WERE LIVING ON RESERVATIONS, their original ways of life changed forever. It was during this era of upheaval that photographer RoyalW. (Roland) Reed Jr. set out to document what he thought was a “vanishing race.” He wasn’t the only one to mistakenly think that: The same motivation propelled Edward S. Curtis to create his life-consuming opus, .
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