Images From Houma

April 15, 2008
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These photos were taken of people and places in the United Houma Nation of Louisiana. Music by Treater from the CD "Zydeco Sur Le Bayou."

Martina Rose Lee, Navajo, attended Arizona State University in Tempe. She is a graduate of the Freedom Forum's American Indian Journalism Institute and interned as a photographer at the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff.

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