Native American Initiative

I haven't been to vocal about this experience because I haven't had too much happen with it this semester.

I signed on for monthly field trips to Native American sites to document and photograph the changing scenery and the juxtaposition of old mingling with the new, as well as misunderstood ideas of Native American life and what it represents now in 2014. 

Our first trip was down to the price area to document the Petroglyphs and pictographs as we are still waiting for communication from the tribes to go onto the reservations and document lives there. 

The first day we were in Nine Mile Canyon documenting the petroglyphs. 

A petroglyph is tapped, not scraped, into the betina on the sandstone cliffs in this canyon. They were done by the Fremont Indians over centuries. It was so upsetting to shoot beautiful artwork and then see all the graffiti along with the native art. It was hard sometimes to tell which ones were authentic and which ones were fabricated.

Here are some shots from that first day.