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06.11.2013 - Interpretation of dali48
Who are they, the descendants
of Native Americans? - The photographer Eric Klemm traveled through North
America for a year and sought an answer - 25000 kilometers by car and plane
from Alaska to New Mexico in the American South: EK photographed the
descendants of the native Indians of more than 120 tribes - His portraits speak
of deep sadness, but also of hope...
For ARTE programs focusing
on "the Indian country," - ARTE magazine talked to the photographer
about his impressions...
ARTE: Mr. Klemm, do you
like Karl May?
Eric Klemm: Of course I
have read him as a child, and was impressed - When I emigrated to Canada, I
suddenly had contact with real Indians - Then I thought back again to Winnetou
and Old Shatterhand. But Karl May was a dreamer - What he wrote was true,
perhaps long ago - Today, American Indians are America's Sinti and Roma: they
are oppressed and discriminated - with no money - no job - often without native
land - homeless…
ARTE: What is the life on
the reservation?
EC: Reserves are the
saddest places I've ever seen - You need to imagine them like run-down council
estates - Governments have taken the land of the Indians - with beautiful forests
and rivers, and gave them some tiny insignificant area instead - and put on
miserable little houses. Indians are very tightly connected to their home
country (see
dali48 and Bees and "Flora and Fauna" since ca. 2000 etc. - see “If the bees disappeared off the face of the
earth, man would only have 4 years left to live.” ― Albert Einstein)
Each tree is important to them (see
dali48 and Trees and "Flora and Fauna" since ca. 2000 etc. - “If
the Trees disappeared off the face of the earth - mankind would only
have little left to live healthy” etc)...
The
reserves have never filled with life, because Indians are miserable there - I
once met an old man, who said: "I'd rather live on the streets than on the
reservation" - That says it all... (ARTE, 2/2010)
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