CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/11/2021

In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day

Featured photograph, titled “Standing Rock Prayer Walk, North Dakota” (2018) is reproduced from Mitch Epstein: Property Rights, a staff pick for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In this 304-page hardcover, Epstein questions who owns the land, by whose authority, and with what rights? In the section devoted to the protests at Standing Rock, Epstein quotes Floyd Hart, aka Little Crow. “Being here is my purpose in life. The Red men were given the obligation to be the protectors of Mother Earth. We will continue to pray, and to believe that the creator and all our resources of nature can help all the people, not just the Lakota.”