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Planting Seed Potatoes 1940

Oke-mah Wah Cumig Oke planting seed potatoes. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Red Lake Agency. 1940. (Note that Thursday is Luddite Photo Day at B.P.A.)

Taos Pueblo

The magical land of the painted sky. Crossing the border from Colorado into New Mexico feels like going back in time. I took the above photo outside of the Robert Mirabal shop at Taos Pueblo because it was the only corn that I saw there. Mirabal, a writer, farmer, and musician, along with partner Nelson [...]

1941 Ansel Adams Photo of Arizona Corn Field

“Corn Field, Indian Farm near Tuba City, Arizona, in Rain, 1941.”by Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984Photo: U.S. National Archives