Surreal photos from the life of modern Oglala Lakota Indians

Photojournalist Aaron Huey has been photographing the Oglala Lakota Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for seven years. In his new book, Mitakuye Oyasin, he lifts the curtain on the lives of these extraordinary people with whom he has spent so much time. All photos were taken between 2006-2013.

(Total 27 photos)

1. A boy plays with a bow on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakota Indians. (Aaron Huey)

2. Young people stand against the backdrop of an approaching thunderstorm in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

3. Stanley Good Voice Elk burns sage to clear a space while performing a ceremony in honor of the deity Heyoki. (Aaron Huey)

4. Mass grave at the site of the Wounded Knee massacre in 1890. (Aaron Huey)

5. Buffalo head on a fence in Oglala, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

6. A boy runs through the village of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

7. Preparation for the ceremony "Dance of the Sun" in South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

8. Children play in the yard near the house in Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

9. A three-year-old child bathes in the kitchen sink. The picture was taken in 2008. At that time, 22 people lived in this three-room house. (Aaron Huey)

10. A portrait of Chief Red Cloud hangs on a wall in a house in Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

11. A young man suffering from the consequences of a neurological disease and alcoholism, sleeps in the living room of his house, which is located six miles from the nearest city. (Aaron Huey)

12. Basement in a house in Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

13. A boy wearing a Halloween mask in Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

14. A girl plays in the basement of a house in Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

15. Drawings on the wall in a house in the village of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

16. Member of the Wild Boyz gang in the village of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

17. Residential area in Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

18. Lovers kiss over a fence at an Oglala pow-wow in the village of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

19. Broken car near the town of Loneman, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

20. Boy from Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

21. The Indians perform the ritual of cleansing inipi in special sweat rooms (from the word "sweat"), tents with a sauna effect. (Aaron Huey)

22. Nine-year-old Wakinyan Two Bulls (Wakinyan Two Bulls) hangs prayer flags near the Devil's Tower in Wyoming. (Aaron Huey)

23. A young man shows the scars left after the ceremony "Dance of the Sun", in the village of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

24. A boy stands on a pickup truck in Manderson, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

25. An Indian named Rudy Beautiful Legs (Rudy Pretty Hips) in Whitekley, Nebraska. (Aaron Huey)

26. The grave of a child in the village of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)

27. Water tower on the outskirts of the village of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Aaron Huey)