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Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dako…

Laura YoungBird completed her BFA, MA & BS for Art Education from Minnesota State University Moorhead. She is the former Director of Native American Art Programs at Plains Art Museum. She also taught…

Jeremy Red Eagle is an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. He lives in the Enemy Swim District and for employment he currently oversees the Dakota Language Institute for the tribe. This p…

Denise is an enrolled Citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Belcourt, North Dakota.

She has been involved in education for forty-four years as an Elementary teacher, Principal, and professo…

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith calls herself a cultural arts worker. She uses humor and satire to examine myths, stereotypes and the paradox of American Indian life in contrast to the

consumerism of America…

Vanessa Short Bull is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. She was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota. She is a direct descendent of Chief Red Cloud, Young Man Afraid …

Dedra Zephier is a citizen of the 3 Affiliate Tribe in North Dakota, and was born and raised in North Dakota.

She was the first Native American who graduated from the North Dakota State College of Sci…

Inkpa Mani is an artist working in the Northern Plains. He received his Bachelors of Fine Art from the University of South Dakota in 2019 and is working on his Dakota Teaching Certificate and Busines…

Artist Reyna Hernandez utilizes mixed media across disciplines to investigate the concept of identity hybridity in relation to her Indigenous bloodlines and westernized arts education. Reyna attempts…

Michael LeBeau, MD, serves as the president of the Sanford Health Bismarck region, overseeing the administration of health services and is responsible for the successful planning and implementation o…

Ciciley Littlewolf is a proud citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe. She received two bachelor's degrees first from the University of South Dakota in Criminal Justice and in Zoology from North Dako…

Mariah Cooper is a 4th year medical student in the INMED program at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. She is a citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa India…

Mylan Panteah is a current scholar in the Young Innovative Investigator Program (YIPP) at the University of Connecticut. He finished his didactic and clinical rotations at the University of North Dak…

Dwayne Wilcox “is entirely self taught--learning from friends and family. ‘I lived in Washington, DC for a few years and I managed to go through every museum archive I came across that contained ledg…

Kayla Aubid, an enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has devoted her career

to the arts as a curator, educator, equity advocate, and arts administrator. She holds a BA in psychology

and…

Joseph Allen has been creating and exhibiting his art for over 30 years. His photographs are in the collections of the Weisman Art Museum, the Minnesota Historical Society and the C. N. Gorman Museum…