Photographer uses 'antique' photo technique to illustrate struggles of Native Americans

During the Dakota War of 1862, the United States government hung 38 members of the Dakota Indian Tribe in Mankato, Minnesota - the largest single-day mass execution in US history. A day after Shane Balkowitsch learned about this event - something most Americans have never heard of - he made the plate 'Death by Oil' (pictured above) using an antique photo process called wet plate collodion, which was first developed (no pun intended) in 1848. The oil in the photo links the struggles of Native Ame...