Project 562: Changing The Way We See Native America - reserve your book now
Project 562 will collect photographic stories from citizens of every Tribe in the U.S., resulting in books, exhibitions and curricula. Created photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes. by Matika Wilbur “This book is too important to miss. It is a vast, sprawling look at who we are as Indigenous people in these United States.” —Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho), author of There There In 2012, Matika Wilbur sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set out on a Kickstarter-funded pursuit to visit, engage, and photograph people from what were then the 562 federally recognized Native American Tribal Nations. Over the next decade, she traveled six hundred thousand miles across fifty states—from Seminole country (now known as the Everglades) to Inuit t...