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© 2011 Erika J. Schultz/ The Seattle Times

Isaiah Curley, 7, lights fireworks at the Quinault River in Grays Harbor County, Wash. to celebrate Chief Taholah Days, which commemorates the signing of the Quinault Treaty on July 1, 1855. For the two days, members of the Quinault Indian Nation gathered in their coastal homeland to honor their independence alongside the Fourth of July. A ray of sunlight shines on the face of a young woman in Nicaragua. Crecencio Estrada works in the hops fields at Champoux Farms near Toppinish, Wash. Fruit vendors work during the early morning hours at the public market in Granada, Nicaragua. Buddy Chambers, a long-time resident of the Wheel In Mobile Home Park, enters his flooded home while trying to rescue his cats and grab some supplies. Seasonal coffee workers unload their baskets of coffee cherries into a transport truck at the end of the day at Santa Eduviges coffee farm. Unloading the coffee is called “Medida” or “to measure.” Workers receive plastic tokens worth money for each basket they deliver. A farmer tends to his tractor outside the town of Gillette, Wyoming. Garrett Ziebell, 19, helps unload wheat during the harvest at E&F Farm, owned by Fred Fleming near Reardan, Washington. Children attend a celebration after their First Communion and work to break a piñata. Jack, a volunteer at the Shilo Mission, takes a break from chipping paint off the exterior of the El Divino Redentor, the oldest church in Flastaff, Ariz. In exchange for a warm bed and meals, a group of homeless men restored the church for an ailing pastor. Caregiver Maurice Lekea secures tubes after putting Bert Brumett to bed in his Seattle home Friday, March 2, 2007. Brumett, 65, has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and cannot talk, move, eat or breathe on his own. His wife, Robin, knows that his keen intellect is alive and well, however. Dust kicks up during a three-day bluegrass festival at Horning’s Hideout near North Plains, Oregon. Worshipers light candles during the Palm Sunday service at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Seattle. Anna Begay works near her hogan outside of Tuba City, Arizona. She was one of eight children born in the nearby valley, originating from the Tannel Bush clan.