Shelley Niro (Mohawk), Girls, 2006, digital print, 28 x 20 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Shelley Niro.

Larry McNeil (Tlingit), Ye’il, 2006, digital print, 31 x 30 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Larry McNeil.

Lee Marmon (Laguna Peublo), Laguna Eagle Dancers, 1962, black-and-white print, 16 x 20 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Lee Marmon.

Erica Lord (Athabaskan/ Inupiaq), Untitled (I Tan To Look More Native) from the series “Tanning Project,” 2006, inkjet C-print, 20 x 28 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Erica Lord.

Zig Jackson (Mandan/ Hidatsa/ Arikara), Kennecott Copper Mine Tooel, Utah, 2000, gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Zig Jackson

Shan Goshorn (Cherokee), Pawnee Woman in Field from the series “Earth Renewal,” c. 2002, hand-tinted double-exposed black-and-white photograph, 24 x 30 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Shan Goshorn.

Rosalie Favell (Metis), My Father’s Hands, 2005, digital print, 20 x 20 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Rosalie Favell.

Jennie Ross Cobb (Cherokee), Graduating Class of 1902, Cherokee Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1902, modern reprint, 16 x 20 inches, collection Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK. © Jennie Ross Cobb.

Pena Bonita (Apache/ Seminole), Skywalker, 2006, color print, 20 x 16 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Pena Bonita.

Sama Alshaibi (Iraqi/ Palestian), Olives from Gaza: the bitter dream, 2004, digital print, 24 x 20 inches, courtesy the artist and C. N. Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA. © Sama Alshaibi.