Dan Holtmeyer | Photojournalist

Boys run across the sacred Yamuna River in northern India, about 80 miles upstream from the capital, New Delhi. Boys like these two often take a break from farming to look for coins tossed in from the bridge above. Once the river hits New Delhi, its mostly clear water turns black and poisonous with the sewage and industrial waste of 16 million people. 

A member of Sangre Azteca, a Latino community dance group in Lincoln, Nebraska, dances in front of the Nebraska Union on UNL's campus in September of 2012 in Fiesta on the Green, a heritage event sponsored by the Mexican American Students Association. 

A girl named Talia rests for a brief moment during a dirt- and game-filled day in Ritter Springs Park, a forested area north of Springfield, Missouri, in June 2013. Hundreds of kids took advantage of the public schools' summer programs in parks like this. 

Supporters of President Donald Trump confront protesters during Trump's visit to Burnsville, Minnesota, to tout the nation's economy and recent Republican tax cuts on April 15, 2019. Several hundred Trump protesters and supporters chanted and argued outside of the event for hours about immigration, Trump's business dealings and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from nearby Minneapolis. 

Tommy Huynh, 3, is unconcerned with religious solemnity during Sunday service in August 2013 at the Dinh Quang Buddhist Temple in Springfield, Missouri. The group of Vietnamese immigrants and their families seems immune to disruption, hardly breaking their chants for latecomers, energetic children or a wandering photographer.  

Spectators watch a total solar eclipse outside of Lincoln, Nebraska, on Aug. 21, 2017. The moon's shadow swept across the U.S. from coast to coast, giving millions the chance to see the sun's glowing corona in a darkened sky. 

Brad Paisley performs for a sold-out crowd at the 10th annual Lakefront Music Fest in Prior Lake, Minnesota, in July 2019. The festival is the year's major fundraiser for the local Rotary Club and this year brought in Paisley, Joan Jett and Steve Miller. 

A family enjoys the sugar-like sand of White Sands National Monument in New Mexico in May 2016. Even in direct sunlight, the reflective sand can feel relatively cool. 

Bullfighters try to distract a bull as it continues to chase rider L.J. Jenkins, on the ground at far right, after tossing him off during a September 2013 bull riding event in Missouri State University's JQH Arena. 

Employees of Normans Bridal in Springfield, Missouri, carry dozens of wedding dresses to a trailer for an outdoor sale the next day in October 2013.

Marchers celebrate Pride in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on June 27, 2015, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex couples across the country could marry. “No longer may this liberty be denied,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority decision.

From left, Round Mountain volunteer firefighter Jeremy Selvey, Goshen volunteer J.D. Hatten and Round Mountain volunteer Mike Brown practice setting a ladder properly for a two-story structure during a joint training between the departments June 26, 2014, southeast of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Benton and Washington counties are checkered with more than 40 rural fire departments comprising about 800 volunteers.

A member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's men's gymnastics team performs on the rings in January 2011. 

Men and boys sift through garbage and trinkets thrown by New Delhi residents into India's Yamuna River in May 2012, looking for coins or anything they can sell. Though the river is revered as a Hindu goddess, the pollution inflicted by the city leave the shores encrusted with refuse and the water an opaque, toxic black. 

The Staudt family of Prior Lake, Minnesota, play with sparklers shortly before the city’s Fourth of July fireworks display launched from Lakefront Park in 2019.

Plaques concealing the cremated remains of dozens of veterans in Fayetteville National Cemetery stand as a stark tally of the cost of war on Memorial Day in 2015. The Arkansas cemetery's first occupants were the dead from several local Civil War battles. 

Hundreds of Native American dancers enter the arena at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's Wacipi, or powwow, in Shakopee, Minnesota, in August 2019. Powwows like this one are several things at once: a celebration of Native heritage, a fusion of several tribes' traditions of singing and dancing at important occasions, and one stop in a continental circuit of powwow dance competitions.