Fifty years after Horse Creek Girl's remains were found, a seemingly simple tribal identification project blossomed into a complex, multi-discipline study. As a result, we now have an idea of how the Horse Creek Girl may have lived and died, and we get a different look at early reservation history than we may be accustomed to.

Sara Wiles began taking pictures of Northern Arapaho people as a social worker on the Wind River Reservation. The photos were a chronicle and a gift to Indian families; now they tour art galleries and museums across the country. Wiles retains her close ties to reservation friends and families, even as she breaks new ground in her effort to use photographs to tell the stories of people and cultures

Fifty years after Horse Creek Girl's remains were found, a seemingly simple tribal identification project blossomed into a complex, multi-discipline study. As a result, we now have an idea of how the Horse Creek Girl may have lived and died, and we get a different look at early reservation history than we may be accustomed to.

Fifty years after Horse Creek Girl's remains were found, a seemingly simple tribal identification project blossomed into a complex, multi-discipline study. As a result, we now have an idea of how the Horse Creek Girl may have lived and died, and we get a different look at early reservation history than we may be accustomed to.