He had tried to live in the shadow of a photograph that was everywhere and that refused to release him.

And then, on a cold January night on the reservation where he was born, he died.

News of his death spread quickly.

It was major news — the Pima Indian from the famous photograph, dead at thirty-two.

The coverage was generally respectful in tone, though some of it carried the same limitations that had characterized coverage of his life: a focus on the photograph, a framing that saw him primarily through the lens of what that image had made him, rather than through the lens of who he actually was.

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