“I figured that that was sort of irresponsible when I started this project, to travel all over the country and not show the landscape,” Wilbur said. “Sometimes I’ll be in the Grand Canyon and I’d rather take somebody’s picture at Havasupai Falls because it’s magnificent and there’s this incredible blue-green water coming out of the ground . and they want to be photographed on their front porch because they love where they live,” she said. “I’ll do what they want to do because people should be represented in a way that is important to them, especially in Indian Country. I find that people have really interesting things to say when you ask them what it means to be whatever their tribe is, and then when you ask them what it means to be an ‘Indian,'” she said. “I’m fascinated by that.” Wilbur also cohosts the podcast All My Relations, in which she and Adrienne Keene a professor who is also Native American discuss their relationships to land, ancestors, and other Native peoples. “I didn’t know that strangers can become family relatively quickly,” she said. “It’s such a whirlwind of a journey.” Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2016. It was updated in 2025.
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