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your opinion of Newt Gingrich's ethics violations ?
Should he be Speaker of the House?
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Nevada then and now
New Native American Photo show at Nevada Historical Society
by Phillip I. Earl
Nevada Historical Society
Friday, January 17, 1997, the Nevada Historical Society will host the Native Americans have adapted
fifteenth Annual Mid-Winter Gala at the Reno
Museum, 1650 N.Virginia Street, Reno. Open-
ing in the changing Gallery that evening will be
a new exhibition, "The People: A History of the
Native Americans of Nevada Through Photog-
raphy." The reception begins at 5:30 p.m. and is
• open to the public without charge. For further
information, call the Nevada Historical Society
in Reno at (702) 688-1191.
Curated by Lee Brumbaugh, Curator of Pho-
tography, the exhibition draws on the Historical
Society's extensive photograph collection to
chronicle the history of Nevada's indigenous
people from the mid-contact period, the 1870s,
through recent times, as seen through the lenses
of Euro-American photographers. In coming
months, there will be several lectures and public
programs featuiing Nevada scholars, among
them Gene Hattori of the Nevada State Historic
Preservation Office on Paiutes on the Comstock
Lode, and Warren d'Azevedo, Professor Emeri-
tus of Anthropology at the University of Ne-.
vada, Reno, on the Washoes.
For thousands of years the Native Americans
of Nevada, who include the Shoshone, Northern
and Southern Paiute and Washoe people, lived
by hunting and gathering natural foods. Through
the centuries they created and intricate culture
in harmony with the land. Forced offtheir land
by an ever-growing population of miners and
ranchers, Nevada's NativeAmericans suddenly
had to make changes that were difficult and
often traumatic. Focusing on clothing, dwell-
ings, religion, and economic lifeways, the exhibition examines how Nevada's
Nevada Historical Society Photograph, Mokeeta, Northern
Paiute, photographed by Elizabeth L. Linton of the
Wadsworth Camera c!,Jb at Nixon, Nevada in 1907.
Nevada Historical Society Photograph
and changed through time.
The exhibition also documents new leader-
ship styles, the educational philosophy behind
the establishment of Indian schools and the
laying out of reservations and urban colonies.
The preservation and revitalization of tradi-
tional cultural imperatives are also reflected in
the exhibition, as is the continuing impact of
Wovoka and the filhost Dance phenomena.
In selecting the images to be used in "The
People," Dr. Brumbaugh came to an important
realization. Although the photograph collec-
tion at the Nevada Historical Society is vast -
over 350,000 images - and many of the prints
in this show have rarely been seen by the
public, they still represent an incomplete record
of the lives of Native American in Nevada in
the latter part of the last century and the first
decades of this one. The photographers col-
lected were nearly all Euro-Americans who
took pictures of Native Americans in mostly
urban settings. Consequently, they missed
much of what was happening, and we cannot
exhibit what we do not have.
To fill in the gaps we are asking anyone who
owns appropriate photos either to donate them
for archival preservation or to lend them to us
for copying (a complimentary high-quality
negative will be returned with each loaned
print). Please help us to continue our work of
collecting and preserving the records of
Nevada's past for the benefit'of the future.
The exhibition will be up through June 1997.
Keep an eye out for information on the lectures
and public programs and join us on Friday.
