Women & Warriors of the Plains

by Dan Aadland

Book Overview

In 1906 teenage bride Julia Tuell arrived at Lame Deer, Montana, on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation with her schoolmaster husband. Seven years later the Tuells moved to the Rosebud Indian... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878424172
• ISBN13: 9780878424177
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A gift from the past

As a Native photographer, I pride myself on knowing most of the old time photographers who documented the plains Indians. I had never heard of this woman or this book, so I was suprised to see it in a Mountain Press catalog. I had to order it and find out what it was all about. Imagine my excitement when I opened the book to find photographs of Plains Indians that I had never seen before. It was like a gift from the past. Unlike the posed photographs of Eastman, these photos are more what today we call "candid". Just people going about their daily activities. Unfortunetly the book is a medium sized paperback, with paper of ordinary quality - meaning the photographs are small, dull and sometimes a bit fuzzy. Which makes to hard to tell whether a photograph is out of focus, or if it's the paper and resolution that makes it look fuzzy. However, it does have some color plates in the center of the book that are very beautiful - although some of those were hand colored and look a bit out of context for these types of photos. Overall, its a treat to look through the photos; examining the details and faces, outfits and tipis, landscapes and structures of a world gone by but still held close to our hearts. As these photographs aren't widely known, nor the photographer (at least not that I am aware of) I would think this book could use a reprint on high end paper in big format. What a treasure that would be. Still worth adding to your collection in its current form.

Features the pioneer photography of Julia E. Tuell

Women and Warriors of the Plains features the pioneer photography of Julia E. Tuell, whose black and white photos documented Native American women's lives and times. The Tuells lived among the Sioux from 1912 to 1929, with Julia using her photography to document their rapidly-changing way of life. Her photos are both artistic and historically important documents of early Sioux women's lives.

An outstanding contribution to Native American studies.

An excellent pick, Dan Aadland's Women And Warriors Of The Plains provides a review of the early photography of Julia Tuell, whose black and white portraits of Native American women are accompanied by fine accounts of life with the Northern Cheyenne and others.