Peoples of the Plateau

Peoples of the Plateau
By Steven L. Grafe
softcover, 224 pages ($29.95)

At the close of the 1800s, former militia officer Lee Moorehouse began to photograph the Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse Indians of the interior Pacific Northwest, rounded up and confined by the U.S. government onto a single reservation. Several years later, he had produced more than 9,000 glass-plate negatives. This collection of 80 of his striking black-and-white images, the first major examination of Moorehouse and his work, is a haunting, frozen-in-time snapshot of a proud people holding onto the tatters of a vanishing way of life.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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