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Chie Nishio- born Yon~ Clly. Japa1i. Came to this country (USA) m
1%9. Chie took these Sioux lndmn pictures when she went to South ~ak­
ota to help a Japanese friend ~et a divorce from her American Air F'ol"c.,
ot'l"icer huslland stationed in ~apid Cit~. The city was full of Judi~~"'

                                             the Pine Ridge Reservation
                                        1"1"0111
                                        and Chie uegan to meet the111 and
                                        to oocome interested m how this
                                        minority lived. 3he was invlled
                                        to visit the reservation and to
                                        photograph. Chie plans to go
                                        back to the Dakotas to do an Ill
                                        depth essay on conditions of tile"
                                        Sloux in an attempt to show
                                        photographically how the "~oWJd­
                                        ed Knee" crisis evolved.




PHOTO ESSAY by Chie Nishio




 specially contributed by Nancy Palmer, friend of DISTAFF lJ