NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN FACES

Professional kids' portrait artist in San Diego County, photos and design by famous children portrait photographer Gary G. Ballard.

PHOTO ONE: Lusieño American Indian girl photographed on her Southern California Indian reservation for her tribal archive. Agency: NAQMAYAM COMMUNICATIONS, a top full-service Native American owned advertising company serving California Indians and government-to-government and inter-tribal relations.

PHOTO TWO: Three Kumeyaay girls — signature snapshot style: Faces close, happy young girls having fun at a San Diego powwow!

PHOTO THREE: Informal pow-wow portrait — a young Soaring Eagles urban Indian girl poses for a portrait wearing her colorful tribal regalia, silver and beaded Indian jewelry, and holding a traditional feather prayer fan. I believe she is of the Crow-Diné-Navajo tribes of North America.

PHOTO FOUR: Very young urban female Indian dancer portrait looking at the camera lens as she danced during a Soaring Eagles practice event in San Diego.

PHOTO FIVE: A young San Diego Kumeyaay boy with a mischevious grin on his face holding a cat and taking off running from the photographer — he had just caught the cat and I wonder what plans he had for it....

PHOTOS SIX-SEVEN: Young Soaring Eagles dancers in their finest handmade Native American tribal costumes pictured during their First Annual Old Town Soaring Eagles Powwow, 2010.

Professional children's photography and design by Gary G. Ballard Photography, San Diego.