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On the 100th anniversary of Wounded Knee, the 'Big Foot Riders' led by Arvol Looking Horse and Birgil Kills Straight retrace the original trail of Chief Big Foot's band.

Myrtis Walking Eagle, 14, attends Christmas evening Mass in Soldier Creek on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

Robert Fast Horse, chief tribal judge, in his chambers at the tribal courthouse in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Fast Horse, a graduate of the university of New Mexico School of Law, makes his rulings in accordance with the Oglala Sioux Tribe Law and…

Melvin Red Cloud great-grandson of the famous Sioux chief, paints grave markers in the carpenter's shop at Pine Ridge's Holy rosary Mission, run by Jesuits. The crosses will mark previously unmarked graves at the Oglala town cemetery. 'When I saw…

To turn his house into a boat, Ben Chagluak loaded it onto 55-galloln drums and towed it from the old fishing camp at Umkumiut to Toksook.

Nick Chanar and fellow crewmen relax at Clarks point, Alaska, after days at sea. Steam bathing is a ling tradition among the Yupik and a sociable way to keep clean.

Nick and Laura Therchik wear the handiwork of Laura's sewing. Their mountain-squirrel parkas kept them warm on this chill morning in the Roman Catholic church, where, with the heater broken, it was so cold the holy water froze.

A toothy smile brightens the face of Fritzie Nevak, who holds walrus ivory that his father, George, will carve into earrings, bracelets or links for wristwatch bands.

To share their good fortune, Anna Asuluk, left, Darlene Morgan, right, and shy Lucy Asuluk, middle, carry emperor geese shot by Anna's father to friends and neighbors. Dividing with others is a Yupik tradition in the delta region.

A well stocked gun rack hangs I eh living room of Paul john, a former mayor, whose daughter Agatha plays with his grandson Vernon. Men hunt ducks, geese, and ptarmigan in spring and summer, and seals year-round.