Edward S. Curtiss Analysis

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Dr. Shannon Egan, presents the life of Edward S. Curtis and his special interest for North American Indians. In this presentation Dr. Egan, not only present the life of Curtis as one in which he captured beautiful and invaluable pictures in which he shows the beauty and nature of human body, or as one in which he created films to change the perspective that people had of the Indians at that time, but she presents the life of Curtis as one in which he tried to made the government and the other people to see that Indians are human beings that still being part form the present and not from the past. This material contains a lot of good information. Not only bring detailed information about Curtis life, but gives good information about what happened

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