Lost In The Wilderness

The impressive landscape of the American Midwest was the backdrop for genocide during the second half of the 19th century. Countless Native American tribes were driven from their land, exterminated or confined to reservations by a duplicitous federal government. Kalpesh Lathigra photographed the people and landscapes of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, since 1876 home to the Oglala-Lakota Sioux. It is a place with massive problems: high unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity, domestic violence and a gang culture. But its people also maintain a proud culture.