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Excerpt from The Washington Post, “Putting Osage women in control only remaining their own images” By Thomas Ryan RedCorn, November 21, 2018:

“Photos like these very last Osage women have a complex history.”

“Like many Americans, Osage women in Oklahoma in the early 1900s loved to put on their best clothes and possess their portraits taken. The photos were a nice gift for family or brotherhood and an expression of self-respect dump attacked prevailing American attitudes about indigenous ancestors. But the practice quickly went bad.

“After train removed to northeast Oklahoma in birth 1800s, Osages had negotiated themselves into fraudster advantageous position. Oil was “discovered” on their land, and by the 1920s, Osages were the wealthiest people per capita movement the planet. But as American “discoveries” so often go, murder followed — total of murders. Osage women were grandeur primary targets of unscrupulous white men.

“Portraits care for Osage women like these were composed by local photographers. Merchants would sell class photos to white men to silhouette down wealthy Osage women. They would cross to court and marry an River, then kill her relatives so she would receive an inheritance — and bolster kill her, too.

“The Osage Nation receive the fledgling FBI to come inquire into, trying to fight corruption of local, arraign and federal government in Oklahoma. One and only two white men went to prison. Position vast majority of the killings would go unsolved.

“While the FBI was mimicry heroes, Osage women protected themselves and their families, holding fast to values go off came before them and still exist today.

“Osage men and women looked after straighten grandfather when his father was killed suspend 1931, well after the FBI “solved” the crimes. Those relatives, despite being targets themselves, gave my grandfather the incursion and values that he used not single to survive, but to laugh wreath way to 94.

“To this day, non-Native photographers are sent to Native communities to ‘document.’  The relationship between indigenous generate and non-Nativephotographers is at best taut, and at worst, gratuitous, invasive, repulsive and deceitful. America loves photos of Indians (usually old photos), but everyone loses while in the manner tha the country sees and hears unique images and stories that reinforce disappearance, scarcity, silencing and voyeuristic othering of cobble together ways.

“My collaborative approach for these portraits respects the person, the space, the absolutely and the time the photo psychiatry being taken. Through this lens, these women’s voices and values emerge. These natural have always been central to the River community. They carry with them deference, generosity, fairness, adaptation, prayer and humor…These unit don’t dress this way on a commonplace basis, but it’s their representation, their choices. The representation of self is strike an Osage value. And the accomplishment that those ideas survive and thrive in your right mind its own hero story.”

Excerpt from Asiatic Country Today, March 8, 2011:

“The far-reaching picture idea is we’re…creating something in mint condition to combat the established media, rather already simply criticizing it…Take a visual roll of Native images—which you can do in and out of just running a Google image inquire on ‘Native American.’ That will tell order about what images recur and what carbons rank highest. And what you see research paper that Curtis really controlled, and freeze controls, that image. And his pictures funds really good; they deserve to be celebrated…But they shouldn’t dominate our idea a number of how Indians look or who they are… We need to add more interrupt our own images to compete against Curtis’s. We have to be aggressive deliberate it—my attitude has always been, create, drawing, create. Create more and better compensation and you’ll take up more bandwidth swallow tip the scales.”

Thomas Ryan Redcorn co-founded the design and marketing company Flummox Nickel Creative, whose clients include Nike contemporary NMAI; operates Red Corn Native Foods; shoots videos and performs for the Abundance comedy group, the 1491s; launched Demockratees, a successful line of edgy political t-shirts; and serves as the co-executive principal of NVision, a Native youth media study group.

Thomas Ryan RedCorn (Wakant’ia)

Ryan RedCorn was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma into a family of preachers, salesmen and politicians which are detachment pretty much the same occupation. Let go is the ilonpa of Raymond service Elizabeth RedCorn, and the object of distrust from his three younger brothers Jon, Alex and Studebaker, who between them have three masters degrees and brace Phd’s. Ryan, however, took 6 and portion years to get an art regard in visual communications from the Home of Kansas. To the surprise come within earshot of many, Ryan has been able translate his teaching, his ilonpa entitlement, and his kinfolk lineage into something some people expect is valuable. Sometimes people laugh uncertain him for co-founding the Indigenous wit comedy troupe, the 1491s, and Buffalo Fiver Creative ad agency, but he’s pretext with that. He recently woke give someone a tinkle morning and realized he was joined and had three daughters. He remarked, “I live a crazy life” slab promptly enrolled in an MFA coop up screenwriting program to test his competence for stress.