Robert and Terri Lynn TallTree of Colorado Springs, Colorado, were among the participants at a Colorado Springs Native American Inter-Tribal Powwow and festival in that central Colorado city

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Robert TallTree is a descendent of Black Elk of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe, centered in Michigan. The event was organized by the Palmer Lake, Colorado, Historical Society and One Nation Walking Together, a nonprofit organization addressing, in the organization's words, the "poverty, unemployment, homelessness, lack of medical care, and insufficient educational resources" faced by the estimated 1.5 million American Indians on reservations, as well as Indians living in urban areas.

Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).

Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.