Vision Quest - 2011 The Year In Pictures

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Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, Yu’pik Inupiat, of the USA during the ladies snowboardcross qualifiers at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010.

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Charlene Teters, Spokane (left), Suzan Shown Harjo, Cheyenne/Hodulgee Muscogee, and Tex G. Hall, Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara speaking at a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing

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his undated photo provided by the San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians shows the Supai Falls in a remote area of the Grand Canyon

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Northern traditional dancer and Nez Perce Native American, Paris Green poses for a portrait during the Contest Powwow Honoring President Joe Shirley Jr., on Friday, March 18, 2011, in Chinle, Navajo Nation.

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Juusipi Qissiq, Nunavik, opens a tunnel in the ice to the mussel beds at the bottom of the Bay of Wakeham.

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The Fort Laramie National Historic Site

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Joyce Tekahnawiiaks King with her Haudenosaunee passport. A Canadian Border Services Agency official confiscated King's passport recently when she was traveling into Canada, calling it "a fantasy document." King has used the passport for international travel for years, including travel into Canada.

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Grass dancer Chris James of Many Farms poses for a portrait during the 9th Annual Kayenta 4th of July Pow Wow on Sunday, July 3, 2011, in Kayenta, Navajo Nation. More than a 1,000 spectators and close to 200 dancers attended the two-day event in the Monument Valley High School Activity Center.

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Model, Designer, Kea Ho

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Survival International released photos of this Brazilian tribe, one of the world's last uncontacted tribes, whose existence is threatened by illegal logging.

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Newspaper Rock, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

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Soul singer Martha Redbone, Cherokee/Shawnee/Choctaw

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a detail from Digital Marae, by Maori photographic artist Lisa Reihana

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Wild Rice, the staff of life

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Sohail Mohammed, a Muslim judge derided by conservative bloggers, holding his citizenship papers as he is ceremonially sworn in as a New Jersey Superior Court judge

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Brown bear catching salmon in Bristol Bay Alaska

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Keystone XL pipeline protesters in front of the White House

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An original copy of the Canandaigua Treaty of 1794, This document recognizes most of western New York State as holdings of the Confederacy and guarantees Indians the right to sell their land to U,S, citizens, Chiefs claim the treaty is valid and has not been honored, Washington DC

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NCAI President Jefferson Keel and fellow members at Congress for Tribal Unity Impact Week

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Activist Waneek Horn-Miller, Mohawk, holds her gold medal from the 1999 Pan American Games

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Guests walk around the Skywalk during the First Walk ceremonies at the new Skywalk at the Grand Canyon on the Hualapai Indian Reservation at Grand Canyon West, Arizona.

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Jude Scimmel shoots hoop on the Umatilla reservation

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Crow war pony painted with tribal symbols by Kennard Real Bird, Crow, from A Song for the Horse Nation at the National Museum of the American Indian

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Elder drinking arsenic contaminated water

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dunker Kenny Dobbs, Choctaw

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Wild horses of British Columbia

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horse and rider at the Indian National Finals Rodeo

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Community member Duane Silk shows a young buffalo's heart to children from Standing Rock Elementary School and the Boys and Girls Club of the Grand River Area-Teen Center.

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Lakota youths meet the Berenstain Bears

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Gil Birmingham, Comanche, and Chaske Spencer, Lakota, at the premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1

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John Baker arrives at the Unalakleet checkpoint on Sunday March 14, 2010 during the 2010 Iditarod Sled Dog Race.

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celebrity judge Tom Ford with Native American Clothing Contest winner Persephone Maybee and her mother Naomi Bebo at the Santa Fe Indian Market

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a turtle-shaped solar-powered house based on Indian tribal traditions, devised by students from the University of Calgary

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Vision Quest - 2011 The Year In Pictures

By:

ICTMN Staff

December 30, 2011

From the pages of This Week From Indian Country Today come images of wonder, triumph, pride and historical significance. This was 2011 in pictures. We’ve seen a lot in these past 12 months, as you can deduce from the recaps of the year’s biggest news stories elsewhere in this issue. But here, pause for a moment of visual reflection. As always, Natives were confronting and communing with nature all over Turtle Island—and indeed, all over the world. Here we see Native traditions staying strong, the Native love of life undiminished, Native art and accomplishment reaching ever higher levels and Natives, as always, walking in two worlds.

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