Haudenosaunee

Knowing that she is an outsider whose work has won her rare access . . . she is respectful. . . . The results are portraits with an elegant spareness and realism. Tucker's efforts have earned her the regard of the people she photographs. -- Life Toba Tucker's vision of the Native American is authentic and compelling because her work consistently demonstrates a sensitive recognition of the collaborative essence of photography and a reverence for the sense of community that lies at the core of the American Indian experience. -- Alfred L. Bush, Curator, Princeton Collections of Western Americana When I look at old pictures of the last century, I study the faces of my people, my relatives. I see details of clothes and home. I search for information in backgrounds. I place names with faces, and I see the continuing relationship between land and people, the continuity of life. I am pleased and grateful that someone back then understood the importance of records. . . . They can be grateful to the perseverance, patience, integrity, and genius of Toba Tucker, who recorded for the future this moment in the ongoing history of the Onondaga Nation. -- Faithkeeper Turtle Clan, Oren R. Lyons, Onondaga Nation With its strong and stirring photographs and its accompanying essays and drawings by distinguished Onondaga spiritual leaders, is a very valuable contribution to our sense and understanding of a Six Nations people who still have much to teach us, if only we would listen. -- Peter Matthiessen