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9. First Nations documentation project

This project will document the dances, rituals and regalia of Native American and First Nations communities across the USA and Canada. It is designed to show Native American and First Nations culture and pride as they are today and undergoing a remarkable revitalization. It will celebrate the dances and gatherings, pow wows and potlatches across these two vast and beautiful nations, from the traditional igloos in the ice of Inuit Nunavut in Canada and the Yupik dances rituals of Western Alaska to the Navajo lands of the Four Corners, the grasslands of Montana and the islands of Hawai’i. It will center on a series of stunning photographic portraits by CSF co-founder and cultural photographer Chris Rainier with a view to a representative selection of the photographs appearing in a photographic book as well as being given to all the communities, Nations and individuals featured for their own collections and for future generations. The project will take four years to complete.