File:Indians at work magazine july 1940 navajo lasso native americans cowboy.jpg

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A typical cover of "Indians at Work", a print magazine produced by two cooperating <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Department_of_the_Interior&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United States Department of the Interior (page does not exist)">US Department of the Interior</a> sub-agencies: the US Indian Service and also the Office of Indian Affairs (the latter, now called the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bureau of Indian Affairs (page does not exist)">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a>). "Indians at Work" attempted to highlight some of the more positive aspects of reservation life while also providing, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Works_Progress_Administration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Works Progress Administration (page does not exist)">WPA</a> style, gainful employment for a team of government photographers including Gordon Sommers who later provided photos for the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Angeles_Times&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Los Angeles Times (page does not exist)">Los Angeles Times</a>. Other well-known <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_deal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New deal (page does not exist)">New Deal</a> era government <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Photographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Photographer">photographers</a>, mostly working under authority of the Department of Agriculture, of the Department of the Interior, or of the Works Progress Administration included <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams" class="mw-redirect" title="Ansel Adams">Ansel Adams</a>, Walker Evans, Minor White, Gordon Parks, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. This July <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1940" title="1940">1940</a> cover image shows a close-up of a young male Navajo horse-rider with a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lasso&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lasso (page does not exist)">lasso</a> and lariat coil of ranch-rope at the ready.

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current01:02, 4 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 01:02, 4 January 2017569 × 775 (61 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)A typical cover of "Indians at Work", a print magazine produced by two cooperating <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Department_of_the_Interior&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United States Department of the Interior (page does not exist)">US Department of the Interior</a> sub-agencies: the US Indian Service and also the Office of Indian Affairs (the latter, now called the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bureau of Indian Affairs (page does not exist)">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a>). "Indians at Work" attempted to highlight some of the more positive aspects of reservation life while also providing, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Works_Progress_Administration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Works Progress Administration (page does not exist)">WPA</a> style, gainful employment for a team of government photographers including Gordon Sommers who later provided photos for the <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Angeles_Times&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Los Angeles Times (page does not exist)">Los Angeles Times</a></i>. Other well-known <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_deal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New deal (page does not exist)">New Deal</a> era government <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Photographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Photographer">photographers</a>, mostly working under authority of the Department of Agriculture, of the Department of the Interior, or of the Works Progress Administration included <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams" class="mw-redirect" title="Ansel Adams">Ansel Adams</a>, Walker Evans, Minor White, Gordon Parks, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. This July <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/1940" title="1940">1940</a> cover image shows a close-up of a young male Navajo horse-rider with a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lasso&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lasso (page does not exist)">lasso</a> and lariat coil of ranch-rope at the ready.
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