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Edward Curtis: Dialogue
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Photographing sacred ceremonies is extremely sensitive and controversial on most Indian reservations today. The responses of contemporary Indian people to Curtis' ceremonial photographs vary tremendously. Some are very glad to his pictures of rituals that, in some cases, have died out. Others are enraged that such sacred things were captured in photographs for anyone to see.

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