Simon Akam

Photography: Native Americans

Four children from the Oglala Sioux tribe sit in the cramped four bedroom bungalow that they share with eight other tribe members in Wanblee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Infant mortality on Pine Ridge is twice the national average. (Simon Akam/The New Statesman)
21 February 2009
Four children from the Oglala Sioux tribe sit in the cramped four bedroom bungalow that they share with eight other tribe members in Wanblee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Infant mortality on Pine Ridge is twice the national average. (Simon Akam/The New Statesman)