Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America (Phase2)

Ah, this is pretty awesome!! Such an amazing project! The photos are so beautiful!

Project 562: Changing The Way We See Native America (Phase2)

Project 562 will collect photographic stories from citizens of every Tribe in the U.S., resulting in books, exhibitions and curricula. | About Project 562 | www.kickstarter.com

Last December, I sold everything in my Seattle apartment, packed a few essentials into my war pony, and hit the open road. Since then, I’ve been embarking on an epic adventure:  Project 562. For the past year I have been fulfilling the project’s goal of photographing citizens of each federally recognized tribe in the United States (there are now 566). Most of the time, I’ve been invited to geographically remote reservations to take portraits and hear stories from a myriad of tribes, while at other times I’ve photographed members of the 70 percent of Native Americans living in urban settings. My hope, is that when the project is complete, it will serve to educate the nation and shift the collective consciousness toward recognizing our own indigenous communities. Imagine walking through an exhibit and realizing the complex variety of contemporary Native America. Imagine experiencing a website or book, that offered insight into every Tribal Nation in the United States.

What if you could download previously untold histories and stories from Apaches, Swinomish, Hualapai, Northern Cheyenne, Tlingit, Pomo, Lumbee, and other first peoples? What if you had heard those stories in grade school? Project 562 is making all this happen.