The voter suppression thats happening recently right before the mid term 2018 elections in North Dakota made me think of these photos that I captured a couple months ago on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota and a little town right on its border called Mobridge. A recently passed North Dakota bill that states that anyone with a PO box as an address cannot vote. This effectively wipes out the voting rights of a majority of Native Americans who live on reservations and predominately have PO boxes for mailing addresses The Sitting Bull Memorial is located on beautiful isolated hill behind the casino overlooking the lake and feels wild quiet. Nearby Mobridge is a sanitized whitewash of Americana and the town boasts a statue of a cowboy riding a fish. Sitting Bull has his self created mythology and so does the wild west cowboy culture, but this is the First People’s land and we stole it and continue to disrespect and steal and undermine Native Americans in this country. its their country and we took it. let the people vote.
