Sweet Medicine: Sites of Indian Massacres, Battlefields, and TreatiesIn 1987, Drex Brooks began photographing sites that had been important in the history of white Native American relations, places such as treaty sites and battlefields. This body of work is named Sweet Medicine after a Cheyenne cultural hero who taught his people their rituals and ceremonies and who also foresaw the changes and destruction that the white man would bring. The photographs encompass not only places of death but also places of renewal,