Stunning photo - Chippewa Indian girl, 1907

[oxymoron]

Portrait of an Ojibway, or Chippewa Indian girl by Roland W. Reed, National Geographic, 1907

Just beautiful.

[wendylaroux]

1. Just beautiful indeed!

Just sitting here starring at her. Wow.

[Cha]

2. I have Ojibway blood.. mahalo, oxymoron for the beautiful photo. I'll have to show it to my sister

and son.

Is there a link?

[LiberalArkie]

8. looks like it is https://i.imgur.com/Gluqvrm.jpg

[Cha]

37. Mahalo LiberalArkie! Except that just gets us the photo.. but that's okay..

[unionthug777]

3. beautiful !!!

not that I am biased or anything. ( I am ojibwe)

ojibwe !!!!

[Scuba]

6. Hey, Thug, how're they hanging? Yes, she's very beautiful.

[unionthug777]

41. hi scuba !!

always to the left !! how goes it wayyyyyyyyy up north there?

[Scuba]

42. It's spring here! Loving it!

[unionthug777]

43. here too !!!

it's about time !!! daffodils are sprouting fast.

[Cha]

38. I got some in me too, from my Mama's side!

[mountain grammy]

4. Lovely, just lovely.

reminds me of song lyrics by Tim McGraw:

I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

[El Shaman]

33. So many of us:

I wonder how we lost it all?

[rjsquirrel]

53. That song

is full of racist stereotypes. Yuck.

And unless you're an enrolled tribal member, bragging about your "Indian blood" is part of the same tradition of casual erasure of real Native people in favor of mythologies, stereotypes, and appropriations.

The girl in the photo is a white man's fantasy of an exotic "Indian maid" in nature. In reality she was witness to the genocide of her people.

National Geographic is the Riefenstahl of that genocide.

[davidsilver]

55. Hey, lighten up man.

[mountain grammy]

56. The first time I heard this song was in a cafe in the Navajo Nation

in Arizona. I asked the American Indians we were sitting with, who were obviously enjoying the song, why it wasn't offensive to them. They laughed and said it should offend me. They thought the song was actually poking fun at white people who boast of having Indian blood. I said I was completely ok with it, and loved the song.
I remember some controversy about the song but this one is really in the eye of the beholder.
I don't like the Redskins mascot for the NFL team because I see it as racist. Traveling through the Navajo Nation this year we passed a high school with a marquee proudly announcing it was the "HOME OF THE REDSKINS." I had a chance to ask about this, and the Indians I talked to said it really is an individual thing with some tribal members wanting to leave the name and others wanting to change it. So far, the team is still the "Redskins."
Personally, I still don't like the term.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-arizona-a-navajo-high-school-emerges-as-a-defender-of-the-washington-redskins/2014/10/26/dcfc773a-592b-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html

The girl in the photo is no "white man's fantasy" because it's an actual photograph.

[virgogal]

5. That picture is perfection.

[narnian60]

9. +100

[aikoaiko]

7. What an image. Powerful.

[raven mad]

10. Awesome.

Thank you.

[yuiyoshida]

11. Sugoiiii!

wonderful!

[BlueJazz]

12. I wonder what she was thinking. I'm truly touched.

[oxymoron]

27. That was my reaction as well

It's a deeply moving image.

[radhika]

13. Wow! Thank you for introducing me to Roland W Reed...

I didn't know him, but found so many gorgeous images just by Googling. Here's one link, as a start....


http://www.artnet.com/artists/roland-reed/past-auction-results

[oxymoron]

21. Thank you for posting the link

It was too late to edit. Wonderful collection.

[laundry_queen]

14. Wow, stunning is right.

So beautiful.

[FourScore]

15. Stunning! n/t

[cwydro]

16. How moving and how incredibly beautiful.

Wow.

[jwirr]

17. Beautiful lady. Background lookes like she may be standing on a hill overlooking Lake Superior.

[Jenoch]

19. There are several bands of Ojibwe in Minnesota

with lakes large enough to produce this image.

[jwirr]

20. That is true. My son-in-laws and grandchildren and great grandchildern are all Ojibwe. We live near

Lake Superior. The picture just gave me a feeling.

[Jenoch]

23. I used to live in Duluth.

I have also been to most of the casinos in the state at one time or a other.

[jwirr]

25. Now you have me beat there. I have only been to the one in Duluth and the one outside Cloquet.

[Jenoch]

30. I'm going give you an idea of how long ago

it was that I lived in Duluth. The first Indian gaming was bingo. The Fond du Lac band did not own the property on which their casino was located (downtown Duluth) so they played blackjack (or "21&quot using numbered ping pong balls because the law was not clear about gambling using cards if the casino was not on the reservation.

[jwirr]

32. Long time ago.

[gollygee]

29. And in Michigan

Also lakes big enough.

[Octafish]

54. The wave pattern said ''Lake Michigan'' to me...

...and that photograph is, as noted on this thread, perfection.

[Brickbat]

24. More likely Red Lake, since Reed did much of his work there.

[jwirr]

26. That is very possible. It is a huge lake and would look like also.

[Jenoch]

31. I did a quick search about him.

Do you have a link with more information? I thought it could have been Red Lake, Mill Lacs, or even Leech or Vermillion.

[Brickbat]

45. Nothing more than Wikipedia.

[Jackpine Radical]

59. That was exactly my thought.

Someplace like La Point in the Apostles, maybe.

[Jenoch]

18. I too am impresssed with this photo.

I am curious as to where the photo was taken. There several bands of Ojibwe in Minnesota (where I am from).

[toothless dragon]

28. I think Brickbat is correct

Upper Red Lake sounds and looks correct... thought there are many lakes... the size looks right.... there are no islands... the lake looks fairly oval and the terrain is very flat... would appear to be from the south to the north... the population centers were all on the south shore I believe... If her name really is Ever Wind... I wonder if she is related to KaKaygeesick also knows as Everlasting Sky

[Bulletin Justin]

22. Her name is Every Wind!

I have several photographs of Native Americans from various tribes hanging in my living room. My husband printed them years ago before he retired as a pressman. Every Wind's name was noted on the back of the photo.

She and a picture of Red Cloud watering his horse are my two favorites.

I think the name is wonderful and suits her perfectly.

[Brother Buzz]

47. Interesting, Reed titled the photograph Enemy Wind yet identifies her as Everywind

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/ojibwa-woman_pod_image.html

[BlancheSplanchnik]

34. makes me cry....

So beautiful

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. kick

[greatlaurel]

36. Thank you for posting this.

Beautiful.

[catbyte]

40. Beautiful. She looks like my mom as a girl, but she wasn't born until 1924.

She was Ojibwe, and I'm 5/8 Ojibwe with a dash of Lakota thrown in. The rest is French-Irish. Chii megwetch for posting!

[Art_from_Ark]

44. I don't know where you get "National Geographic, 1907"

I have a complete set of National Geographics up to 1997, and that photo does not appear in any of the 1907 editions, even in the edition which features the article "Indians of North America".

[Brother Buzz]

46. Maybe here:

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/ojibwa-woman_pod_image.html

[Art_from_Ark]

48. Thanks

I checked my September 1988 edition, and there it was-- on page 349. A really stunning photo

I wonder why it was not included in the original 1907 article?

[Brother Buzz]

49. The photograph was taken in 1907 - National Geographic purchased it in 1915

In 1915 National Geographic Magazine licensed the rights to about 40 of his photographs, but fewer than eight were actually published between 1916 and 1988.

[Art_from_Ark]

51. My hat is off to you

My next question would be, why did it take National Geographic so long--73 years-- to publish this photo?

[Brother Buzz]

52. Five minutes visiting Wikipedia® and I'm an authority

Nevertheless, I'll accept kudos from any quadrant.

Have you ever been to the Castle? They have a LOT of stuff that never gets published!

[Art_from_Ark]

63. I have been to the Smithsonian Castle

[Aristus]

50. Breathtaking.

Thank you for sharing.

[Richard D]

57. What a different world it was then.

[AikenYankee]

60. Lovely. nt

[Delphinus]

61. Oh my.

Simply beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.