Shooting Back From The Reservation
Photographs by Native American Children
SHOOTING BACK FROM THE RESERVATION
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN
CLOUDS
If I touch the clouds it would feel invisible You will fall through. It feels soft It looks like a person laying down on the clouds It looks bluish-white and it tastes like water It would look like the wind and I heard it blowing fast It would taste like cotton candy and water It looks like it was blowing up and it was round.
TASHINA MARTINEZ, 9, 1992
“The human spirit is enormously powerful, intelligent, and creative. These young photographers showed us how important their dreams of hope, self-confidence, wisdom, and beauty are. In no way do I believe that photography is a panacea, or salvation from poverty and indifference. These childrens’ futures are uncertain. Their visions, however, have miich to teach our society, and we must be open to their messages, expressed here in photographs and words.”
JIM HUBBARD, Executive Director, Shooting Back from the Reservation
“When I pick up a camera, it feels like I’m going to a different dimension. I like to take pictures of good things, in all kinds of ways.”
“What dimension do you go to?”
“The future.”
-RONALD LEWIS, JR., 10 to Jim Hubbard, Hualapai Reservation, Peach Springs, Arizona 1993
