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Photographing Native American Life

In 1902, at the age of twenty, Richard Throssel moved to Montana after it was recommended that the drier climate would ease his rheumatism. In Montana, he found work as a clerk for the Indian Services office at the Crow Indian Reservation where, in 1905, he was adopted by the Crow tribe. Throssel became a field photographer for the Crow reservation, his native descent and close relationship with the tribe affording him intimate access that non-natives photographers could not experience.

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