Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was recommended as the November 2020 Book Club selection from Indianapolis' Eiteljorg Museum of Western and Indian Art. I was aware Edward Curtis was a photographer, but I never gave much thought about his life story before this book.

Egan makes this non-fiction book as easy to read as a narrative novel, and that is a talent and craft I appreciate. It also made me question why a nation built with a freedom of religion as a basic right would do as much as possible to destroy the religion of these indigenous people. This was nothing I thought about before this book.

I highly recommend this book to all readers.

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