His images are considered personally meaningful as they are representative of tribal realities and highlight the sensitivity behind the representation of Native Americans.
[4] He received his education from Brooks Institute School of Photographic Art and Science in Santa Barbara, California.
[5] In 1983, he worked with Alaska Native Foundation and produced Yupik Eskimo women weaving distinctive grass baskets.
Later in 1986, he created seventeen portraits of tribal clan leaders in Northwest Arctic School District.
Emeritus Professor of American Literature, Mick Gidley, commented that the sequence "represents both recovery of history and, photographically, creation through revision" in a manner that "frames in photographs - both old and new - a national myth that incorporates the first Americans".