{"id":48,"count":4,"description":"When I saw my first powwow in the mid-1970s I was struck by the powerful sense of self the dancers exhibited on the powwow grounds. I also saw a link to the images made in the early twentieth century by Edward S. Curtis but, unlike the Curtis subjects, which are usually photographed against a plain backdrop and seem frozen in time, I was interested in pulling back the curtain to show the background activities that led up to the dance. I was determined to find social meaning beyond the tourist-like veneer of the event.","link":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/category\/field-work\/strong-hearts\/","name":"Strong Hearts","slug":"strong-hearts","taxonomy":"category","parent":42,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/42"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}