Roland W. Reed — Every Picture Tells A Story

How a man from Wisconsin imagined the Indigenous peoples of the Plains

Sara Relli
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Echoes Call, 1913, photo by Roland Reed, via Wikimedia Commons

In 1875, two (white) children fell in the Fox River, near Omro, Wisconsin. A third child was standing on the riverbanks, helpless and terrified, as he watched his friends fighting for their lives.

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Sara Relli
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Screenwriter. MA graduate in Post-Colonial Literatures. Passionate about the written word. And politics. And literature. And so many other things