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2004 Native Americans and Photography Symposium K Tsianina Lomawaima Session 3

Lomawaima examines the huge corpus of what she calls government PR photos designed to show the success of the government policy of assimilation. From pictures of Indian children attending boarding schools captured in the famous before/after genre to images of Indian dwellings, Lomawaima reveals the underlying purposes of such images, which were often touched up and manipulated to agree with the long standing oppositions of darkness and light, which have plagued Native American representation since the first images were produces right after contact. K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Muskogee), professor at the University of Arizona in the American Indian Studies Program, is author of “They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School,” which was awarded the 1993 North American Indian Prose Award and the 1995 American Educational Association's Critics' Choice Award. She co-authored “Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences” and co-edited a special issue of The Journal of American Indian Education (Spring 1996 Vol. 35 #3) on boarding school experiences. Ongoing research projects include federal production and uses of photographic images to document and publicize programs to assimilate and “civilize” Native peoples and communities.