TRIBES IN TRANSITION EDUCATION FUND (TTEF), a nonprofit organization, was established in 2008 to educate and raise awareness in support of Indigenous Peoples.  The current focus of TTEF is the international traveling photography exhibition, DIGNITY:  TRIBES IN TRANSITION, which includes 60 black and white photographs from the book, DIGNITY, In Honor of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Dana Gluckstein.   The art exhibition focuses on the urgent need for implementation of the newly adopted United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. TTEF is a 501 c3 project of Creative Visions Foundation and both organizations are based in Los Angeles.

DIGNITY: TRIBES IN TRANSITION was on exhibit at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland at the Palais des Nations from July 11 – August 31, 2011 sponsored by the United States.  The opening night reception on July 11th  was hosted by the United States and coordinated with the fourth annual UN session of the Expert Mechanism of Indigenous Leaders.  Dana Gluckstein was the keynote speaker along with U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Mrs. Betty King, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs. Navanethem Pillay, and Director-General of the United Nations Office of Geneva, Mr. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The exhibition left Geneva at the end of August to continue on the European museum tour which will include Museum Bad Arolsen in Germany April 27- July4, 2012.
 
DIGNITY:  TRIBES IN TRANSITION was on exhibition in Berlin at the Willy-Brandt-Haus Museum from February 3 – March 25, 2011.   Record public attendance included numerous classes of children.  Facebook messages arrived weekly from these students who were moved by the exhibition which includes inspirational text by Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Native American Faithkeeper Oren R. Lyons.   

Robert S. Sobieszek, the late renowned Curator of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, describes Gluckstein’s work, “The portraits taken by Dana Gluckstein evidence a clear attempt to reinvest portraiture with that something that was lost some time ago. And that something is nothing less than the desire, or the requirement, to express the character and moral quality of the sitter in such a way that far more than likeness is suggested if not exactly revealed… Gluckstein bestows upon her sitters a sense of stilled dignity…The dispassionate remove common to most modern portraits is all but absent in these images; in its stead is a passionate complicity between artist and sitter that allows each subject to be memorialized with both beauty and grace.”
 
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