Documentary Photography | Sanford J. Siegel

Sandy Siegel

Oct 630 min read

September 1976: Education

My dear friend, Mike, watched Susie and I writing fieldnotes almost every day he came to our trailer … and that was every day. He’s the...

Sandy Siegel

Sep 1556 min read

August 1976: Beginnings

We arrived at the mission in Hays on August 9, 1976, in the early afternoon. I was astonished to discover that my first fieldnotes from...

Sandy Siegel

Sep 735 min read

A Brief History of the Gros Ventre and Federal Indian Policy

The Gros Ventre or A’aniii are an Algonquian-speaking people. There are quite a few tribes that speak languages belonging to this family....

Sandy Siegel

Aug 2422 min read

Getting There: From Columbus to Hays

The furthest west I’d been was to St. Louis when my brother was teaching at the University of Missouri. I could count on one hand the...

Sandy Siegel

Jul 2057 min read

From Gros Ventre to A’aniiih

I’m going to be taking an extended break from the blogs I’ve been posting with my contemporary photographs and notions about all the...