From: Sharron L. McElmeel <mcelmeels_at_uwstout.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:28:27 -0500

On 4/2/12 5:19 AM, Debbie Reese wrote: Anytime someone uses photos of American Indians, I pay particular attention because of that sort of misuse. In his dissertation, Matthew Martinez (of Ohkay Owingeh) looked at photos used in travel/tourist brochures. He writes of one that shows Pueblo women baking bread outside in the ponte's we still use. In the photo, there is a metal bucket. Behind them is an adobe home, with glass windows, and power lines above/behind it. In the brochure, that photo was changed. The bucket became a stump, the glass was removed from the windows and power lines gone, too.

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