Simon Akam

Photography: Native Americans

An young Oglala Sioux Indian girl sits on her bunk in the cramped four bedroom bungalow that she shares with 11 other tribe members in Wanblee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. The life expectancy on Pine Ridge is the lowest in the US. (Simon Akam/The New Statesman)
21 February 2009
An young Oglala Sioux Indian girl sits on her bunk in the cramped four bedroom bungalow that she shares with 11 other tribe members in Wanblee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. The life expectancy on Pine Ridge is the lowest in the US. (Simon Akam/The New Statesman)