Photographer aims to stir change on Pine Ridge Reservation

Tuesday, May 3, 2011  

Photographer Aaron Huey has spent the last six years documenting life on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and now he wants to raise awareness of conditions in Indian Country.

Huey is raising money for a national billboard campaign. He plans to post his images in places like New York City and Washington, D.C,. to draw attention to a history of broken treaties and promises suffered by the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

"For the first years I didn't really know why I was returning," Huey told Popular Photography. "I just knew that I couldn't turn away, that people were giving me something that I had a responsibility to share."

Huey has raised over $22,000 for the Pine Ridge Billboard Project.

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Aaron Huey: Life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Popular Photograph 5/2)

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