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  • The American Scholar

    WORKS IN PROGRESS

    Sep 01, 2020 4 minutes
    —JAYNE ROSS

    Bird Dancer

    In 2012, , a member of the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes of Washington, launched Project 562, her effort to photograph the 562 federally recognized Native American tribes in the United States. (That number has since grown to 574.) She envisioned the project as a national endeavor to correct historically inaccurate, harmful representations of Indigenous people. Almost a decade later, Wilbur has traveled to all 50 states, and Project 562 is nearly finished. Its many focuses have included Native American identity as related to land, especially in the context of displacement; two-spirit and other LGBTQ+ identities, and rematriation, an Indigenous feminist movement. Noting that in

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