Gail Tremblay challenges stereotypes in old cinematic narratives through her basket works.
more
You are here
Hena Uŋkiksuyapi: In Commemoration of the Dakota Mass Execution of 1862
Gwen Westerman, Mitakuye Owas (All My Relations) (2012), quilt, commercial cotton embellished with glass beads and Swarovski crystals, 65 ½ x 65 ½ in. Photo: Courtesy of the Hillstrom Museum
Location
Hillstrom Museum
800 West College Avenue Gustavus Adolphus College
Saint Peter, MN
56082
United States
Map: Google Maps
Dates:
Dec 17, 2012 8:15PM to Feb 8, 2013 2:15AM
Type:
Websites:
Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, Dakota for “we remember those,” features artworks by Dakota and other Native American artists presented in commemoration of the mass execution on December 26, 1862 of 38 Dakota following the end of the Dakota-U.S. War of earlier that year. The exhibition includes works by artists Janice Albro, Joseph J. Allen, Gordon Coons, Jerry Fogg, Erin Griffin, Jacob Pratt, Mona Smith, Robert Two Bulls, and Gwen Westerman (exhibition co-curator).
A series of programs has been planned in conjunction with Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, including a screening of the recent film Dakota 38 (7 p.m., Thursday, January 10, 2013, Treaty Site History Center, St. Peter); a round-table discussion with artists and other members of the Dakota community, moderated by Dakota Elder Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa, with a performance by a group of Dakota elders of the Dakota hymn "Lac Qui Parle," presented after a discussion of the hymn by Dakota Elder Reverend Sidney Byrd; and a lecture by Kevin Gover, Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (3:30 p.m., Sunday, January 27, 2013, Alumni Hall, Gustavus Adolphus College).
