YOUNG INDIAN FACES

The masked Indian face of a young Pai-Pai Native American boy is photographed inside a shelter on his family ranch in the indigenous tribal community of Santa Catarina, B.C., Mexico.

The young Native California boy donned his cowboy-style hat and pulled his bandana up in a bandit style to hide his face for the portrait picture.

You can take this from the photographer:

The young boy is a hardworking ranch hand who has little free time to play between his chores and helping run his Indian family rancho.

And he lives in a dangerous desert backcountry where police, soldiers, bandits, smugglers, drug traffickers and ranchers conceal their identities....

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