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Collaboration key to assembling Native American photo trove

Curation efforts also have involved tribal experts throughout the process, something that historically wasn’t done.

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In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 photo, Eric Hemenway, left, the director of archives and records for the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians looks over photographs with University of Michigan William Clements Library Curator of Graphics, Clayton Lewis, center, and cataloger Jakob Dobb in Ann Arbor, Mich. The photographic collection was acquired by the library in 2016 from Richard Pohrt Jr. and represents some 80 indigenous groups. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A University of Michigan library has acquired a trove of roughly 1,000 images of Native Americans from the 19th through the early 20th century from a longtime collector.

They represent some 80 groups and run the gamut from the iconic, such as Sitting Bull, to the commonplace, such as a woman hoeing potatoes in a Michigan garden.

Archivists say even the everyday images are compelling because they reveal life in hard times and the spirit of perseverance as they struggled for survival.

Curation efforts also have involved tribal experts throughout the process, something that historically wasn’t done.

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