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Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective
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I have always been fascinated with the work of Mathew Brady, Edward S. Curtis, and that of Orlando Scott Goff. Mr. Goff was a wet plate artist located here in Bismarck in the 1870's and is credited with taking the very first photograph of Sitting Bull. I contacted Ernie LaPointe the Great Grandson of Sitting Bull and he paid a visit to my makeshift wet plate studio. He explained much of the history of his people and their ways and this journey started with his plate "Eternal Field". I quickly set a goal of making 50 large 8x10" black glass ambrotypes of the Native American community in modern day. I have since abandoned the 50 plate limit and now plan on making 1000 wet plates of this fabulous culture, a 20 year commitment. It is a huge honor to follow in the footsteps of previous wet plate photographers that had similar series in the 19th Century. On my journey, I have befriended Dakota Goodhouse a local historian and instructor at United Tribes as well as Margaret Landin. They have been instrumental in being a liaison between myself and the different members of the tribes. Margaret has been present for most of the portrait sessions. Her role is to make sure that all the Native American elements that I am photographing are presented properly with dignity and respect. I also am working very closely with Lindsay Schott and Emily Schultz, both Archive Specialists at the Heritage Center. Their undying dedication to capturing all things historical in North Dakota is inspiring. The plates that I make are being gifted to the Historical Society and their permanent archive. This is not something that is going to be accomplished overnight, but as I add more and more plates, the series seems to have more significance. If fate does not break my stride, I will do everything that I can to see this through.
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“The work that Shane does for its artistic merit as well as for its collaborative nature is genuine and enthusiastic, on a human level. For the folks of many different Indian tribes, who sit for his portraits, and who often become his life-long friends, Shane builds real rapport. Beyond the making of art photographs, it is this rapport, and the importance of honest collaboration between people of different cultures, that is so important for our country and is at the center of the moving forward of our country. I’ll strive to emulate the rapport that Shane has achieved in his work, in the work I’m doing in Congress. Shane’s photographs are not only beautiful, but they convey the best example of good people working together to achieve something great.”
Debra Haaland (Laguna Pueblo)
Congresswoman – New Mexico’s 1st District
March 21st, 2019
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My
new goal is to
capture 1000 Native Americans in the beloved process, at the present rate, a
20 year commitment. I also plan on publishing 4 volumes of picture
books based on my favorite plates from the series. On November 3rd,
2017, Northern Plains Native Americans opened at the
Bismarck Art Gallery Association (BAGA). The series was greatly
embraced by the community and we broke the galleries all-time attendance
record. The first 145 plates were on display. I am proud to be on this creative
path and will do whatever it takes to make the people of this great state
proud. On October 28th, 2018, Calvin Grinnell "Running Elk" a historian
for the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation held a Native American Naming Ceremony
for me at my studio in Bismarck. Calvin chose the name "Shadow
Catcher" Maa'ishda tehxixi Agu'Agshi in Hidatsa. Dora Gwin assisted
him with the spelling and pronunciation of the given name. Edward
Curtis was referred to as the "Shadow Catcher" by many tribes and Calvin
thought it fitting that the name be carried in present day be me.
Contact Information:
CLICK
HERE for "Defender Of The Faith" in FRAMES MAGAZINE, January 11th, 2021
CLICK
HERE for Indian Country Today "Shadow Catcher", May 15th, 2020
CLICK
HERE for American Indian Photos Captures In Old Way For New Book, June 21st, 2019
CLICK HERE
for the Russian article in Bird of Flight about my Native Amerian work, July
18th, 2019
http://sharoncol.balkowitsch.com/wetplate.htm
http://history.nd.gov/archives/manuscripts/inventory/2014-P-025.html
Ongoing Series
Ernie LaPointe (Crow Foot) "Eternal Field"
Great Grandson of Sitting Bull
Lakota
Dakota Goodhouse "Two Wars"
Hunkpapha Lakota
Greta White Calfe "White Calf"
Arikara / Hidatsa
Scott Davis, Sr. "Two Worlds"
Standing Rock Sioux
Kevin Locke "First to Arise"
Hunkpapa Lakota / Anishinaabe
Dr. Jim L. Davis "Big Eagle"
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Dave Archambault II "Brave Fox"
Standing Rock Sioux
Frank White Bull "White Bull"
Standing Rock Sioux
Mary Louise Defender Wilson "The
Gord Woman" Dakota Hidatsa
Biron D. Baker, MD "Stands Above"
Mandan / Hidatsa
Todd R. LeBeau "White Bear Claws"
Standing Rock Sioux
Monte Yellow Bird, Sr. "Black
Pinto Horse" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Russell "Rusty" Gillette "Hooves"
Arikara / Hidatsa
Nelenah Rainbow GreyEyes
"Beautiful Night Woman"
Dakota Tlingit Navajo
Charles W. Murphy "Shot at by the
Enemy" Standing Rock Sioux
Alesha Jacqueline YellowBird (Egan)
"Ree Hawk" Arikara Assiniboine
Frank L. Bull Head
"His Horse is Looking" Hunkpapa Lakota
Shaydee Pretends Eagle
"Artistic Woman" Lakota / Dakota
Rochelle One Skunk - Bull Head
"Black Shawl Woman" Minniconjou Lakota
Margaret Landin
"Beautiful Evening Star Woman" Arikara Hidatsa
Assiniboine
Chase Iron Eyes
"Walks Without Fear" Lakota
Pete Red Tomahawk
"Iron Tail" Yankton Sioux
Calvin B. Grinnell
"Running Elk" Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation
Elijah Dale Benson "Young Coyote"
Nu'eta - Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Joe Dunn "Buffalo Horse"
Standing Rock Sioux
Regan Dunn "See Her Tipis"
Standing Rock / Cheyenne River Sioux
Elijah Landin "Warrior Spirit"
Arikara Hidatsa Dakota
Tayla Blaine "Stands on a Rock"
Crow
"Soaring Eagle
Woman"
Standing Rock Sioux
Zaysha Grinnell "Blue Bear Woman"
Hidatsa
Denise Joyce Kitson "Red-Haired
Woman"
Sioux (Hunkpapa) / Hidatsa
Norma Rachelle Baker "Red Berry
Woman"
Hidatsa Dakota Sioux Assinboine
Robert "BJ" Rainbow "Long
Buffalo"
Dakota Ojibway
Bryann Rainbow "Pretty Eagle
Woman"
Dakota Ojibway
Brendan "Pnut" Scouts at Night Young "Dancing
Red Horse"
Lakota Sioux
Anthony McDonald "Wild Horse Man"
Spirit Lake Dakota
Leander Russell McDonald
"Whistling Bear"
Spirit Lake Dakota / Arikara Hidatsa
Randi Hart "Strong Eagle Woman"
Northern Cheyenne Hidatsa
Shotay Waters "Two Flags"
Oglala Lakota
Dale Benjamin American Horse, Jr.
"Happi"
Sicangu Lakota
Jonah Kyler Jackson "Buffalo
Thundering Boy" Spirit Lake Sioux Nation
Loren Yellow Bird, Sr. "Medicine
Horse" Arikara Hidatsa
Sydney Paige Shepherd "Syd"
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Mandan Shakopee
Michael Gene Stillday "Little
Sioux" Ojibwe
Joelle Alita Bearstail "Bull
Berry Woman" Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Alana Star Cosay "Blue Bead
Woman" Standing Rock Sioux / White Mountain Apache
Steve Yellow Earrings "Sending
Elk" Standing Rock Sioux
Kayla Jo Grey Bear "Different
Cloud Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Ronika Lexi Thunder Hawk "Thunkder
Hawk" Standing Rock Sioux
Page Howe and Ja'Siah Jace Howe "Mother
with Child" Hidatsa Arikara
Vincent Night Horse Fox "Horn"
Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Justine Marie Parkhurst Two Lodge
"Brings Back the Wounded Woman" Standing Rock
Dakota
Adrian M. Crowfeather "Black
Eagle" Standing Rock Sioux
Mark N. Fox "Sage Man"
Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara
Nation (Chairman)
Jason Luke Morsette "Not Afraid
of the Enemy" Arikara / Dakota
Darren J. Thompson "Pipigwe"
Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe
Sihasapa Wi "Black Feet Woman"
Sicangu Lakota Ihanktonwan Dakota Child Born
at NO DAPL Camps
Floris White Bull "Brave
Heart Woman"
Standing Rock Hunkpapa Lakota
Vanessa Dundon AKA Sioux Z. Dezbah
"Going to War"
Southwest Dine' Nation (Navajo)
Sophie Linda Landin
"Brings Back the Wounded"
Arikara Hidatsa Dakota Tlingit
JoBeth, Amiera & Taylen Brownotter
"Brownotter"
Standing Rock Sioux
Jerrilyn Crow Ghost Brownotter
"Crow Ghost"
Standing Rock Sioux
Terry Brownotter, Jr. "Little
Warrior"
Standing Rock Sioux
Alice Brownotter "Red Woman"
Standing Rock Sioux
Holly Young "Young"
Wiciyena Dakota
Inyan Young "Rocky Butte"
Wiciyena Dakota
Kathryn Marie Froelich "Red
Basket"
Arikara
Marley Jestany Zayde with Cherry the Bear
"Keeps Butterfly Woman"
Standing Rock Sioux
Thomas Anthony Baker, Sr. "Coyote
Who Sings Alone"
Standing Rock Sioux
Wallace (Butch) Thunder Hawk
"Brave Bear"
Standing Rock Dakota
Anchie D. Fool Bear
"Afraid of Nothing"
Upper Yanktonai Dakota Sioux
Khannie Saengphachanh
"Brave Red Woman"
Oglala Lakota
Jesse B.J. McLaughlin
"Red Tail"
Standing Rock Hunkpapa Lakota
Delaney Jayce Keenan
"Crazy Bear"
Standing Rock Hunkpapa Lakota
Tiffany Julia Baker
"Dreams with Horses Woman"
Standing Rock Hunkpapa Lakota
Jacqueline Wambli Situpi Sapa Win
"Eagle Black Tail Woman"
Shoshone / Lusieno
Fawn Catherine Wasin Zi
"She Brings Many Buckskin Horses"
Hunkpapa Lakota
Dawn Marie Wasin Zi
"They Journeyed for Her"
Hunkpapa Lakota
Aceanna Charlize Brown
"Butterflies Brought Her Home"
Hunkpapa Lakota
Nathaniel Charles Brown
"Respects the Thunder"
Hunkpapa Lakota
April Shootingstar Lee
Wičháȟpi Wakȟáŋ
"Shootingstar"
Standing Rock Hunkpapa
LeRoi Lamont Laundreaux
"White Cloud"
Cheyenne River Sioux
Ruth Anna Buffalo
"Woman Appears"
Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Johnathon Thomas Largo II
"Strong Buffalo"
Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Navajo
Manape
LaMere
"Soldier
Boy"
Sioux Nation
of Indians Laramie Treaties
Chief Arvol Wilfred Looking
Horse
19th Generation Keeper of the
Sacred Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle
"Sacred Horse"
Lakota Sioux
Matthew
James Lone Bear
"Lone
Bear" Hidatsa
Danielle
Ta'Sheena Finn
"The
Seventh Star Woman" Miss Indian
World 2016-2017 Hunkpapa
Lakota, Inhanktowan Dakota
Standing Rock Nation
Jt Shining
One Side AKA Joyce T. Belgarde
"White
Thunderbird Woman" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Linda Sue
Black Elk
"Evening
Primrose Woman" Catawba
Luke Vernon
Black Elk
"Calm
Before the Storm" Great
Grandson of Black Elk the Medicine Man Itazipco
Lakota
Sheena Leigh Elk "Sits Beside Her" Standing Rock Sioux
Angel Lena Young and Justin Lynn Young "Mr. and Mrs. Four Rings" Mandan Hitdatsa Arikara and Standing Rock Lakota
Good Earth Woman "Good Earth Woman" Arikara Dakota
Nissa Leigh McLaughlin "They Depend on Me" Standing Rock Sioux
Richard Orville Grey Day "Wolf Eyes Looking" Hunkpapa Dakota Standing Rock
Wendi Renae Wells "Woman in the Lead" Descendant of Buffalo Bird Woman, Sitting Rabbit,
Hard Horn and Chief Four Bears Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Waylon Black Crow, Sr. "Black Kettle" Oglala Lakota
Madison and Michael Marion "Feather Cloud" and "His Spirit is Sacred Boy" Dakota Chippewa
Erica Rose Thompson "Knife Woman" Spirit Lake Dakota
Gordon Lee Decoteau "Warrior Horse" Arikara Chippewa
Tammy Decoteau "Sits Among Them" Arikara Chippewa
Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy III "Chameleon Horse" Standing Rock Hunkpapa Lakota
Dakota Louise Eagle "Ally" Arikara, Dakota and African American
Greggory Thomas Deal "Numu" = People Pyramid Lake Paiute
Isabella Dawn Lebeau "Sacred Meadowlark Woman" Standing Rock Hunkpapa
Angela Beth
Bibens "Red Owl Law" Santee Sioux
Nation Nebraska
Thomas Anthony Bull Head, Jr. "Bullhead" Great Grandson of Lt. Henry Bull Head Standing Rock Hunkpapa / Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota
Ellys Gracie White Eagle and Alycia Alice Yellow Eyes "White Star Woman" 5 Generations Sisitonwan Dakota, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and
MdeWakatonwan Dakota / Hunkpapa Lakotah MdeWakatonwan Dakota / Hunkpapa Lakotah / Sicangu
Lakotah
Joni Alvina Little Owl "Black Foot Woman" Mandan
Steven Edgar Sparks "Eagle Boy" Standing Rock Sioux
Mya Jordan Elese "Baby Buffalo" Arkirara Hidatsa Mandan Kickapoo Lakota Apache
Myron Dewey "Strong Thinker" Paiute Shoshone
Jeffrey Arnold Bad Wound "Bad Wound" Oglala Lakota
LaVera Elizabeth Bad Wound "Her Sacred Breath" Oglala Lakota Miss Oglala Lakota Nation 2016-2017
Sondi Sioux Phillips "Woman Who Sees Things in a Good Way" Standing Rock Sioux
Robbyn Brett Pudwill "Pretty Flower Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Mayjia Allison Horst "Horst" Lakota Sioux
Kainon Ezra Ayutapi "Walks with Thunder" Standing Rock Sioux
Glenna Rae Yellow Fat "Her Sacred Black Horse" Standing Rock Sioux
Dana Edward Yellow Fat "Stops Four Times" Standing Rock Sioux
Belisha White Eagle "Tall Woman of the Grass Nation People", Name passed down from Zona Loans Arrows Standing Rock Sioux
Aliya Winter Martinez "Brings Good Winter Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Florentine Bridget Black Spotted Horse "Black Spotted Horse" Sicangu Lakota French
Vonica Wicahpi
Alberts "Chief Child" Arikara
Kadence Jean Steele "Cherished Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Catera Kayan-Kay Saint John "First Star Woman" Prairie Island Dakota
Wyatt Lane Bailey "Never Looks Back" Standing Rock Sioux
Tomi Kay Phillips "Sacred Heart Woman" Standing Rock Lakota
Michele Claire Thunder Hawk "Good Minded Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Connie Patrice Brownotter "Returning Wish" Standing Rock Sioux - Dine'
Cheyenne Jeannette Gunville "Gunville" Arikara
Charlie James Daniel Eagle Shield "Eagle Shield" Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Larissa Little Dove Fox "Eagle Bird Woman" Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Justiss Jean Firemoon "Meadowlark Girl" Sioux Assiniboine
Amy Kristen Jackson "Many Stars" Sac & Fox
Natasha Joy Gourd "Different Star Woman" Spirit Lake Dakota
Sierra Rose Crowsbreast "Spotted Corn Woman" Arikara
Courtney Jeanette Frazier "Frazier" Cheyenne River Sioux
Grace Raune Kelly "Kelly" Standing Rock Sioux Shiloh Basketball
Albert R. Two Bears "Two Bears" Standing Rock Sioux
Dusty Lee Nelson "Moon of the Yellow Hair Woman" Oglala Lakota
"Medicine Horse"
Kul Wicisa Oyate
https://www.ecowatch.com/standing-rock-not-afraid-to-look-2107100951.html
"Lightning Comes Dancing"
Oneida Nation
"Headsman"
Hunkpapa Lakota
"Shoots at Her in the Middle"
Hunkpapa Lakota
Derek Focus
Smith "To Awaken as
if From a Dream" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa / Navajo Nation
Courtney Taylor Spottedwolf
"Flying High Eagle Girl"
Fort Peck Dakota
Noah Pino "Owns His
Pipe" Fort Peck
Dakota / Dine
Carter Daniel
Gravseth "Gravseth" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa / Yanktonai
Shayne
Alexandra Reeves "Yellow
Paint Woman" Mandan,
Hidatsa, Arikara
Eden Marley
LaClaire "LaClaire" Cheyenne
River Sioux
Jayme Marie
Davis "Thunder
Being Woman" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa / Standing Rock Sioux
Matt James
LaClaire "LaClaire" Cheyenne
River Sioux
Melanie Rose
Howard "Looks
Over Horses Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Amaris Lynn
Thompson "White Shawl
Eagle Woman" Dakotah
Terrence
Raymong Yellow Fat "Thunder
Hawk" Hunkpapa Great Grandson of
Chief Thunder Hawk
Gayleen
Claymore Yellow Fat "Walks in a
Humble Manner Woman" Hunkpapa
LaToya Lee
Crazy Bull "Fights
Invisible Woman" Hunkpapa Great Great
Granddaughter of Chief Crazy Bull
Dionna Bull
Bear "Morning Star
Woman" Oglala Descendant of
Chief Bull Bear
Dawson Dana
Yellow Fat "Thunder from the
North" Hunkpapa Great Great Great
Grandson of Chief Thunder Hawk
Witney Renae
Fear "Fear" Oglala Sioux
Winona
Clarice Kitzan "Bear Woman" Lakota Sioux HM3 United States
Navy
Lance H.
White "Voice of the Stars" Dakota /
Arikara Great Great
Grandson of Chief Sitting Bear
Melanuie
Sioux Schwab "Melanie Sioux" Hunkpapa Sioux
Tyson Myles
Running Bear "Esan Tanka Hoksida" Standing Rock
Sioux / Sioux Valley Dakota Nation
Brigette
Renee Little Owl "Sits Up
Straight" Winnebago
Tribe of Nebraska
John Eagle
Shield, Jr. "Yellow Arrow" Hunkpapa
Lakota
Spencer
Matthew Little Owl "His Holy
Wounded Horse" Standing Rock
Sioux
Bryon Jason
Brady, Jr. "Looking Water" Hidatsa /
Arikara
Melissa
Merrick-Brady "Sacred Morning
Woman" Dakota /
Lakota / Hidatsa / Arikara
Kaydence V.
Little Owl "Crocus Flower Woman" Mandan
Xavier Scott
Little Owl "First Born" Mandan /
Lakota
Serena Lynn
Eagle "Scarlet Woman" Cheyenne
River Sioux
Cheryl Lynn
Abe "Beautiful Design" Dine /
Hidatsa / Japanese
Audra Jean
Stonefish "She Holds Her
Family High" Oneida
Roy Morsette "Morsette" Arikara
Chad Blaine
Morsette, Jr. "Eagle Trail" Arikara /
Sioux
Gillian Lynne
Plenty Chief "Eagle Wing
Woman" Arikara /
Dakota
Lisa Marie La
Fontaine "Lone Eagle
Woman" Turtle
Mountain Ojibwe Cree
Melaine
Janice Stoneman "White Lighting
Woman" Sicangu
Lakota
Mary Ann Bear
Heels McCowan "Her Good
Nation Woman" Sicangu
Lakota Oyate
Shaundeen
Nizohni Smith "Last Band" and Sidrick
James Baker, Jr. "Laughing Man" Navajo /
Arikara - Hidatsa / Plains Cree
Devin Frances
Drags Wolf "Remembering
Zitkala Sa" Mandan /
Hidatsa Great Great
Granddaughter of Chief Drags Wolf
Sabrina Leann
Dragswolf "Dragswolf" Mandan / Hidatsa Great Great
Granddaughter of Chief Dragswolf
Dennis Clark
Houle "Reflection on
the Water" Ojibwa
Nookwakwii
Snowy White "When it Snows
in the Springtime after the Birds Have Come Back" Leech Lake Band of
Ojibwe - Anishinaabe
Isabelle
Pearl White "Red Pipe Woman" Fondulac Band of
Ojibwe - Anishinaabe
Madison Pearl
Kingbird "Kingbird" Red Lake Band of
Ojibwe - Anishinaabe
Cherish
Kingbird "North
Thunderbird Woman" Red Lake Band of
Ojibwe - Anishinaabe
Lavender Hunt "Red Ribbon
Woman" Leech Lake Band of
Ojibwe - Anishinaabe
Mark R.
Kingbird, Sr. "Leading
Feather" Red Lake Band of
Chippewa
Fahtima Lee
Hood "Running Star
Woman" Mandan Hidatsa
Arikara Nation
Jennifer
Camille Weston "White
Buffalo Woman" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa
Cole Jacobson "Redhorse" Mdewakanton Dakota
Desirae Lylah
Desnomnie "Buffalo
Grass Woman" Peepeekisis Cree
Nation
Trisha Goodwill "Standing Buffalo" Dakota Nation
Terri Lynn Treetop "Turtle Tuwale" Lakota Standing Rock
Sioux
Jason Dayn Burnstick "White Eagle
Boy" Plains Cree
Douglas Andrew War Eagle "Walks with
Sacred Buffalo" Grand Nephew
of Chief Crazy Horse Minneconjou
Donald Peter Red Thunder "Crazy Horse" Grand Nephew of Chief
Crazy Horse Minneconjou
Floyd Gene Clown, Sr. "Black Tail
Calls You" Grand Nephew
of Chief Crazy Horse Minneconjou
Jerome Morsette "Bald Eagle" Mandan Hidatsa
Arikara
Jerome Louis Morsette "Bucky" "Two Hawks" Mandan Hidatsa
Arikara
Wanbli Ahambla Mesteth "Eagle Dream" Hunkpapa Lakota
Cassie No Heart Harrison "No Fear" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa Lakota
Keegan Ty Eagle "Eagle" Standing Rock Sioux
Kendrick Trent Eagle "Meadowlark" Standing Rock Sioux
Della No Heart "No Heart" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa Lakota
Reuben James Fast Horse "Heyokha" Hunkpapha
Raymond Harold Moore, Sr. "Wild Horse" Lakotah
Dakotah Sioux
Jennifer Ann Young Bear "The Face of the
Arikara" Mandan
Hidatsa Arikara
Kaliah Faye Eagle "Eagle" Mandan
Hidatsa Arikara
Sweet Medicine Finley "Red Corn Woman" Mandan
Hidatsa Arikara
Danette McCraydie "McCraydie" White Earth
Chippewa
Belinda Frances Runningwolf "Sacred Shawl
Woman" Cheyenne
River Sioux / Blackfeet
Cindy Ann Littlefeather "The Woman Who
Came Back from War" Dine
Michela Fay Alire "Warrior Woman" Mountain Ute
/ Southern Ute
Lindsey Elizabeth Twinn "White Feather
Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Rosalyn Yvonne Fasthorse "Fasthorse" Grandfather
was Joe Bullhead Standing Rock
Sioux
Kodi Michelle Thunder Hawk "Thunder Hawk" Standing Rock
Sioux
Kelly Jo Hosie "Standing in the
Red Hail Woman" Arikara
Hidatsa Cree Ojibwe
Freedom Patrick McLaughlin "Wild" Standing Rock
Sioux / Ihanktowa Dakota / Hunkpapha Lakota
Gerald Leroy White "Two Men Standing" Anishinaabe /
Eagle Clan / Leech Lake Pillagers
Michelle Elizabeth Bird "Red Paint Woman" Mandan
Hidatsa Arikara
"Lightning Dancer Woman" Ihanktowan
Dakota / Lower Brule Lakota
William Aaron Reeves II
"Standing Tall" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Waterbuster Clan
Genevieve Rae Iron Lightning
"Stands First Woman" Cheyenne
River Sioux Miss Black
Hills 2017-2018
Allan Thomas Demaray, Jr.
"The Little Missouri" Mandan
Hidatsa Arikara
Francis John Connors
"White Eagle" Arikara
Skye Brooke Manikateri
"June Berry Root / Holy Evergreen
Woman" Mandan
Hidatsa
Synsir and Jayceon Fog In The
Morning
"Eagle Dancer and Standing Rock" Crow Hidatsa
Hunkpapa Lakota Dakota
Vernon Iron Cloud
"Jaw" Standing Rock
Sioux - Wakpala
Jonathan Manikateri
"The Brave Man" Seminole -
Taino (Adopted
Hidatsa - Knife Clan)
Lovina Manuella Fox "Sacred Wind
Woman" Mandan Hidatsa -
Knife Clan
SaNoah Solange LaRocque "Eagle
Woman" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Mural to recognize first Native American Miss ND USA (kxnet.com)
Martina Fern Miller-Eagle "Sacred
Hands Woman" Standing Rock
Ihunktuwana
Wanbli Waunsila Wi Eagle "Compassionate
Eagle Woman" Miss Standing
Rock 2018-2019 Standing Rock
Ihunktuwana
Darian James Morsette
"Buffalo Bull Shoulder"
Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Black Mouth Society - Prairie Chicken Clan
Richard
Edward Mayer
"Buckskin Horse"
Mandan Hidatsa Black Mouth
Society - Prairie
Chicken Clan
Kobe Allen Morsette
"Brings Good Medicine"
Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Knife Clan
Steven Daniel
Mayer "Mayer"
Mandan Hidatsa Arikara
Carol Eve Good Bear "Scatter Corn"
Mandan Hidatsa 6th Generation
Bloodline to Chief Four Bears
Linda Fay
Gourneau, MD "Medicine
Corn Woman"
Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Chippewa
LaDonna Carol Brave
Bull-Allard "Good Earth Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Alliana Marie O'Brien "O'Brien" Arikara Assiniboine
Sioux
Arline Cecelia
Charging "Geese Woman" Mandan Hidatsa
Jada Lynn Charging "White Cedar
Woman" Mandan Hidatsa
Arikara
Autumn Dawn Monteau,
Esq. "Holy Sage
Woman" Mandan Hidatsa
Chippewa Cree
Kristen Joy Tootoosis "Sacred Flying
Eagle Woman" Dakota
Brandy Rose Duarte "Duarte" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa / Mexican
Micah Lee Cozad "Cozad" Comanche Dakota
Owi-Dusna-Waste-Win
Esther St. John "The First
Snowfall to Fall of the Season" Dakota
Jameson Edward Cozad "Cozad" Comanche Dakota
Wesley Red Eagle Snow "Black
Cloud" Hidatsa Arikara
Carson Hood, Jr. "Good
Eagle" Hidatsa Dine Black Mouth
Society - Dripping Dirt Clan
Savoy Paul Fog In The
Morning "Sitting
Crow" and "Four Lodge Poles" Lakota Crow Smooth
Scalper Barbers
Trista Yvette Fog In
The Morning "Fog In The
Morning" Standing Rock Sioux
Wyslee Grace Dubray "Running Redo
Woman" Yanktonai Mandan
Lelani Rai Running
Bear "White Flower
Woman" Yanktonai Nakota from High
Star Camp at Oceti Sakowin (NO DAPL!)
Terrence James Morgan "Sun Thunder
Man" Spirit Lake Dakota /
Pawnee
Hailey BreAnne Tory
Lincoln "Yellow
Blossom" Mandan
Hidatsa Arikara
"Good Leaf" Mandan Hidatsa
Arikara Siooux
Melissa Jean Wise "Spirit Wise" Standing Rock
Sioux / Arikara
Storm Allen
Grey "Runs with White Buffalo Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Kerry Gay Israel "Brings Good
Spirits Home Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Bernadine Nicole
Mandan "Mandan" Mandan Hidatsa Sioux
Lakota
Montel Ray
Carlow "Thunder
Stone" Oglala Sioux
Jennifer Ann Whiteman "Whiteman" Crow
Wind Spirit
Spotted Bear "Wind Spirit
Spotted Bear" Nueta Hiraaca
Justin Clarence
Deegan "Charging on the
Trail" Arikara Hunkpapa
Oglala
Samiah
Lillian Rhone "Sweet Corn
Woman" Hidatsa
Arikara Sioux African American
Stefan Brock Silk "Storm That Comes
Fast" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa Lakota Water Protector at
DAPL Protests
Ashlee Marlo
Young Bird "Yellow
Blossom" Hidatsa
Robert Vernon McClain "McClain" Red Lake Ojibwe
Muscogee Creek Scored 1000 Points
for UTTC Thunderbirds
Clifford
Joseph Graham "Many
Bears" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
April Ruby
Chapo "Chapo" Navajo
Paul Yellow
Bird McCormack "Bear Turns
Around" Arikara
Hidatsa
Tyrale
Kimberly Spotted Bear "Blue Beads" Hidatsa
Dakota Rae
Kidder "Sacred Red
Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Royce Kah
Young Wolf "The One Who Brings
Joy" Hidatsa Mandan
Eastern Shoshone
Wanbdi Waci "Dancing
Eagle" Arikara
Ihanktonwan
Elk Looking
Back "Elk Looking Back" Arikara Ihanktonwan
Brenda White
Bull
"Compassionate Woman" Hunkpapa
Lakota
Aryana Renee Henthorne
"Henthorne"
Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone
Jason Shane
Two Crow "Two Ravens" Mandan
Hidatsa Arikara (Knife Clan)
Hillary
Eagle-Eye Renick "Pretty Looking" Sherwood Pomo
Hope Miranda
Baker "Eagle Call
Woman" Mandan Hidatsa
Arikara
Benjamin
Orren Fricke "Yellow Hammer" Modoc Arikara Wasco Great Great Grandson
of Yellowhammer (Hagagosh) Last Chief of the
Modoc Tribe
Robin Opichee
Day-Bedeau "In The
Clouds" Bois Forte Band of
Chippewa
Amanda
Danielle Long Peltier "Yellow Eagle Woman" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa Cousin of Leonard
Peltier (Occupation at Wounded Knee)
Trey Cole
Morsette "Sky Tale" Arikara
Hidatsa
Michelle Rose
Reed "Golden Eagle Woman" Lac du Flambeau
Ojibwe
Hugh Marlow
Young Bird "Wild Eagle" Hidatsa
Mandan
Stephanie
Elida Swallow "Good Feather" Ho-Chunk Nation
Gloria
Delaini White Bull "Makes The
Road Woman" Cochiti
Pueblo / Hunkpapa
Mekasi Camp Horinek
"Coyote"
Ponca
Caleb White Bull
"Kills Enemy" Hunkpapa Lakota /
Cochiti Pueblo
Chasen Davis Sitting
Bear "Sitting Bear" Standing Rock Sioux
Teyana Hailey Luger "Luger" Standing Rock Sioux
Jada Lynn Luger "Luger" Standing Rock Sioux
Khalani Rayne
Howard "Rock Star
Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Swan Melody
American Horse - Hopkins "Feather
Wind" Standing Rock
Dakota / Lakota
Love Melody
Hopkins "Hopkins" Standing Rock
Dakota / Lakota / Arikara
Elijah
Michael Spears "Spears" Red Lake
Chippewa
Lissa Yellow
Bird Chase "Bright
Star Woman" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Kianna Yellow
Bird Brown "Morning
Dew" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Shauna Yellow
Bird "Morning
Star Woman" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Vine Thomas
Marks "Lone
Wolf" Sisseton / Wahpeton
Jacqueline
Elaine Quisno, MD "Quisno" Gross Ventre
/ Oglala
Magdalen
Yellow Bird "Corn Silk" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Nelrene
Yellow Bird "White Eagle
Woman" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Tamara Jill
St. John "Pleasing Woman" Sisseton /
Wahpeton
Merinda Rose
Catch The Bear "Turtle
Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Davia Jordan
Nicole Eagle Horse "Two White Buffalo
Woman" Cheyenne
River Sioux
Lindsey
Rondell Eagle Horse "Eagle Horse" Standing Rock
Sioux
Jason Lance
Eagle Horse "Eagle Horse" Cheyenne
River Sioux
Pansy Ann
Goodall "White
Fighting Tiger" Arikara
Oliver Hugh
Yellow Bird "Yellow
Bird" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Miisheen-Meegwan Shawanda "Many
Plumes" Ojibwe /
Odawa
Joshua Wade
Atcheynum "Two
Wings" Plains Cree
Noodin
Niimebin Shawanda "Wind
Dancer" Ojibwe /
Odawa / Potawatomi / Cree
Jaelyn Rita
Two Hearts "White
Plume Woman" Spirit Lake
Dakota
Ashley Rose
Cherry "Cherry" Arikara Great Great
Granddaughter of Chief Sitting Bear
Olivia
Josephine Delorme-Heitkamp "Josephine" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Mary
Everett-Bateman "Yellow
Corn" Arikara Granddaughter
of Chief Sitting Bear
Walter Jerome
Beaver, Jr. "Beaver" Standing Rock
Lakota
Karla Rae
LaBatte "Red
Hail Woman" Cheyenne
River Sioux
Debra Anne
Haaland "Crushed
Turquoise" Laguna Pueblo New Mexico's 1st
District
Otakwan
Acahkos Iskwiw "Evening
Star Woman" Metis
Nevaeh White
Mountain "White
Mountain" Standing Rock
Sioux
White Elk
Woman "White
Elk Woman" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Kimberly Ann
Dickens "Iron
Road Woman" Arikara /
Lakota
Tokeya Waci U
Richardson "Comes
Dancing First" Oglala Lakota
/ Haliwa-Saponi Great Great
Great Grandson of Sitting Bull
Lisa Marie
Medchill "Chief Village Woman" Arikara / Blackfeet
Isabelle
Gladys Medchill "Woman From A
Different Nation" Arikara /
Blackfeet
Charles
Vernon Lasley, Jr. "Bear With Good
Voice" Hoocak / Ojibwe
Ashley Marie
Rave "White Wing
Woman" Hoocak
Johnny James
Crow "Son of Oglala" Oglala Lakota
Theresa Marie
Eclipse Williams "Resounding Sky
Woman" Ojibwe / Lakota /
Northern Cheyenne
Sheena Marie
Cain "Head Bird
Woman" Ponemah Lac
Courte Oreilles Mille Lacs Ojibwe
Ashly Dawn
Hall "Holy Owl
Woman" Hunkpati
Sioux
Troy Fox
Keahna Morsette "Mountain" Meskwaki /
Dakota / Arikara
Kilyn Rain
Parisien "Many Birds Woman" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Edmund Dale
Baker "Bear Teeth" Hidatsa Great
Grandson of Black Hawk
Chalayne
Larissa Baker "Baker" Plains Cree
Leah Kay
Omeasoo "Universal
Woman" Plains Cree
Farrell Hue
Top Of The Sky "First Born" Chippewa / Cree
Cipriano
Joseph White Bull "White Bull" Hunkpapa
Lakota / Cochiti Pueblo
Dawn Eudora
LeBeau "Black Necklace
Woman" Cheyenne River Lakota
Marcella Rose
LeBeau "Pretty
Rainbow Woman" Cheyenne
River Lakota South Dakota
Hall of Fame Recipient WWII Nurse
Dr. Lisa
Christine Martin "Strong
Hearted Woman" Lac Du
Flambeau Band of Chippewa
Sheri Lee
BearKing Baker "Her Many
Horse Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux / Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Maddison
Marie Spotted Bear Patneaud "Rainbow" Ojibwe / Cree
/ Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara
Tamara Kay
Davis Patneaud "Thunder
Makes The Earth Rattle Woman" Ojibwe / Cree
/ Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Micah William
Ray Patneaud Schwamp "White Eagle" Ojibwe / Cree
/ Oneida / Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Arrow Lorenzo
Spotted Bear Patneaud "Hunting
Wolf" Ojibwe / Cree
/ Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara
Florence Lois
Ten Fingers "Birch Woman" Oglala Lakota
Kory David
Annis "Grey Cloud" Lakota
Antoinette
Kyla LaFramboise "Talks Good Woman" Arikara
Delvin Luke
Rabbit Head, Sr. "Walks In The
Light" Hidatsa Great
Grandson of Rabbithead Who Was
Photographed by Edward Curtis in 1908
Stephen Edwin
Skenandoah "Skenandoah" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Oneida
Aiyana Rayne
Burnstick "Eagle Child" Peepeekisis
Cree
Samuel Louis
Seaboy "Sitting Eagle" Dakota
Joanie Marie
Ramey-Neumann "Good Pretty
Woman" Standing Rock
Hunkpapha Lakota / Dakota
Jackson David
Ripley "Holy Coyote" Arikara
Elizabeth
Anne Jaakola "The Lady Who
Knows How To Sing Well" Ojibwe
Hunter
Animkii Jaakola "White Eagle" Ojibwe
Xander
Jackson Ripley-Jaakola "Black Crow" Arikara /
Ojibwe
Jagger
Mamaajii Ripley-Jaakola "Day Break Woman" Arikara /
Ojibwe
Herbert Dale
Fineday, Jr. "Big Wolf" Fond du Lac
Nation
Molly Laura
Fineday "All Around The
Sky Woman" Fond du Lac
Nation
Veronica Lynn
Skinaway "One Thunderbird
Woman" Sandy Lake
Band of Mississippi
Yvonne
Kathryn Vainio "Mist On The
Water Woman" Grand Portage
Band of Ojibwe
Arne Vainio,
MD "Leader of
Thunderbirds" Mille Lacs
Band of Ojibwe
Albert
Richard Little Owl III "Strikes The
Back" Mandan /
Lakota
Red Feather
Raven Heart "Eagle Plume
Woman" Mandan
Cinrique
Keirra Bracklin "Glowing Robe" Hidatsa /
Ojibwe
Cadence Logan
Bracklin "Sacred White
Buffalo Woman" Hidatsa /
Ojibwe
Larry Allen
Yazzie "Wolf Spirit" Meskwaki
Christal Lea
Moose "Woman Walking
Through Pine Trees While
Snowflakes Are Falling" Mille Lacs
Band of Ojibwe
Lucy Jean
Youngman "Young Man" Oglala /
Sioux / Arikara / Hidatsa
Chloe Jessica
John "Little Bear
Woman" Arikara /
Hidatsa / Navajo
Mychel James
Gregory John "Swift Horse" Arikara /
Hidatsa / Navajo
Colette
Laverne Youngbird "Red Deer Woman" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Priscilla
Lynn Younbird "Born Of Bear
Woman" Arikara /
Hidatsa
Audryana
Nicole Leingang "Leingang" Standing Rock
Sioux
Thane
Marshall Beheler "Beheler" Standing Rock
Sioux
Arthur Thomas
Mandan "Eagle
Flies Before The Cloud" Mandan /
Hidatsa
Jayce Wallace
Archambault "Ghost Singer" Standing Rock
Sioux
Hallie Faith
Junel Lattergrass "Sunset" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Skylar Jaymes
Poitra "Red Leaf" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Vincent Nolan
Gillette "Lone Eagle
Standing" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Ella Marie
Robertson "Stops The Wind
Woman" Sisseton
Wahpeton Oyate
Kathleen Sue
Big Eagle "Corn Seed
Woman" Forth
Berthold Three Affiliated Hidatsa
Autumn Marie
Greene "Three Stars" Standing Rock
Sioux
Firerstar
Shadow Charette Scheck "Dancing Doe" Southern Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Dean Dedman,
Jr. "Red Hand" Standing Rock
Lakota Hunkpapa / Dine'
Savannah Jade Austin
"Red Pheasant Woman"
Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara /
Standing Rock Hunkpapa
Crystal Lynn
Little Owl "Little Owl" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Sincere
Joshua Young "They Who
Will Hear Him" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Halle Rae
Martinez "Beautiful Butterfly
Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Devlin Shay
Peltier "Little
Eagle" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa Great Great
Grandson of Amos Two
Bulls from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
JaLeo Jace
Long "Long" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Joel Alex
Omeasoo "One Who
Picks Up Feathers" Plains Cree
Lahlee Carma LaBlanc
"Yellow Plum Woman"
Dakota / Lakota / Hidatsa
LLoree Dawn
Dickens "Yellow
Buffalo Woman" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Tonia Jo Hall
"Pretty Moccasins Woman"
Dakota / Lakota / Hidatsa
Cheyenne
Verna Rose Tiokasin "Looks In The
Lodge" Arikara /
Dakota / Chippewa
Seth Charles Ramsey "Red Star" Standing Rock Sioux
Sapphire
Carmella LaBlanc "Stands In
The Center Woman" Dakota /
Lakota / Hidatsa
Derryn LeAnn
Siegfried "Siegfried" Standing Rock
Sioux
Wynona
Demaray "You Never
Know When She's Coming Back" Mandan /
Hidatsa
Eric Thomas
Louis, Jr. Floyd Ear "Little Man
With A Wooden Rifle" Stoney Nakoda
Sioux
Jeanette Ann
Black Cloud "Eagle Road
Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Megan Marie
Thunder Hawk "Red Flower
Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Sarah Rose
Dubois "Dubois" Spirit Lake
Sioux / Standing Rock Sioux Descendant of
Chief Running Antelope
Paige
Victoria Dauphinais "Dauphinais" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Didymus
Thomas Morsette "Slow Dancer" Dakota /
Ojibwe / Hidatsa / Arikara
Joran Luke
Morsette, Sr. "Red Tip Horn" Dakota /
Chippewa / Hidatsa / Arikara
Randi Ronelle
Dogskin "Red Pretty
Voiced Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux / Sisseton
Clayton Allen
Ayutapi, Sr. "Ayutapi" Standing Rock
Sioux
Tusweca Maree
Wilson "Singing
Star" Oglala Lakota
/ Arikara
Vonnie Joe
Alberts "Rabbit Woman" Arikara /
Dakota Great Granddaughter
of Lone Chief
Inaani
Rainbow Wilson "First
Thunder" Oglala Lakota
/ Arikara
Melanie Angel
Moniz "Butterfly Woman" MHA Nation /
Nueta / Hidatsa / Sahnish
Ira Lawrence
High Elk "Scares The Eagle" MHA Nation / Lakota
Natasha Rae
Hall-Chase "Red Star Woman" MHA Nation / Dakota /
Cree / Assiniboine / Lakota / Navajo
Percy Beau
Chase "Blue
Feather" MHA Nation -
Child of Prairie Chicken Clan
Micah Rae
Highwalking "Medicine Dancer
Woman" Northern Cheyenne U.S.M.A. West Point
2010 Graduate
Rowena
Stephanie Roberts "White Bird" Stoney Nakoda
Muh-Juhtheen
Roberts of the Dakota Horse
Society, Manitoba, Canada "Little Thunder" Choctaw / Stoney
Nakoda
Deanna Ellen
Milda "Pretty
Buffalo Woman" Crow / Lakota
/ Pima
Tawa Marie
Witko, PsyD "She Who Brings
Balance" Lakota
Maymangwa
Anpetula Garcia "Waving The
Water Woman" Ojibwe
Wambli Wayne
Burnette "Sees Through The
Clouds" Sicangu Lakota
Santana Rose
Hettich "Stands In
Medicine Circle Woman" Hunkpapa
Lakota
Kelsie Lynn
Harrison-No Heart "No Heart" Hunkpapha Lakota /
Mnikhowozu
Bezel
Brilliant "Brilliant" Bad River Band of
Ojibwe / Grand Portage Ojibwe
Grace Lynne
Her Many Horses "Sacred Cedar
Woman" Oglala Lakota
Virgil Allen
Freeman "Freeman" Pit River - Madesi
Clan from California
Lloyd
McKinley Brown III "Buffalo's Breath
Boy" Standing Rock Sioux
RaeLeigh Lynn
Morin "Morin" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Bryne John
Morin, Jr. "Morin" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Kolette
Monique Medicine "Red
Lightning Woman" Lakota / Standing
Rock Sioux
Wiconi Suta
Win "Strong Life Woman" Arikara / Dakota /
Lakota
Damon Cameron
Hopkins "Big
Medicine" Arikara /
Dakota
Dr. Ruth Ann
Plenty Sweet Grass - She Kills "Night Wind Woman" Hidatsa / Mandan /
Assiniboine / Dakotah
Gerri
Kathleen Pearson "Green Grass
Woman" Sugpiat from
Kodiac Alaska
Dayton White Eyes "White Eyes" Hidatsa / Lakota
Lily Anna
Swaney "Dancing Elk
Girl" Hidatsa /
Mandan / Salish / Kootenai / Assiniboine /
Dakotah
Enos Channing
Baker "Red
Earth" Mandan /
Hidatsa
Jewel Ella
Martinez "Juneberry
Woman" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Heather
Janette Waters "Waters" Sicangu /
Oglala Lakota
Arikaree
Alberts "Thinking
Of Things A Long Way Off" Arikara
Mahpiya Ota
Mani Zephier "Walks
Through The Clouds" Yankton Sioux /
Rosebud Sioux
Jaslyn
Georgette Red Tomahawk "Seen By
Her Nation In A Holy Way" Standing Rock
Sioux
Anthony
Joseph Moran "Runs
Above" Mandan / Hidatsa /
Arikara
Gertrude Emma
Moran "Star
Woman" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Tamyah Marcia
Mount "Red
Eagle Plume Woman" Aaniiih / Nakoda /
Lakhota
Kaylee Ruth
LaCompte "Little
Shining Star" Hunkpapha
Lakhota / Sichangu Lakhota
Baylee Ann
LaCompte "Stands Alone
Woman" Hunkpapha Lakhota /
Sichangu Lakhota
Armando
Javier Telles "Telles" P'Urepecha
Cheyenne Eete
Kippenberger "Fire" Miss Indian World
2019-2021 Seminole Tribe of
Florida
Joseph Scott
Kippenberger "Kippenberger" Seminole
Tribe of Florida
Marquel
Tyreese Holiday "She Who
Keeps All That Is Dakota" Yankton Sioux
Tara Lee
Skarp "Approaching
Cloud Woman" Red Lake
Ojibwe
Carlos John
Picotte "Fronter" Hunkpapa Lakota
Stuart James
Lohnes "Lightning
Boy" Spirit Lake /
Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara
Delmer Wayne
Crows Breast "Raven
Chest" Mandan / Hidatsa /
Arikara
Volney Veryl
Fasthorse "Without
A Rope" Yanktonai /
Hunkpapa
Henry Lee
Gipp "Gipp" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa Lakota
Casey
Benjamin Fasthorse "Fasthorse" Yanktonai /
Hunkpapa
Solomon Seth
Scabbyrobe "Scabbyrobe" Yakama /
Blackfeet
Hannah
Catherine Washington "Washington" Sisseton
Wahpeton Oyate
Curtis Brave
Bull "Lean
Warrior" Standing Rock
Sioux
Xia Tynielle
American Horse Brave Bull "Brings
Thunder Woman" Cheyenne
River Sioux / Standing Rock Sioux
Kenya Marie
Scabbyrobe "Bird
Woman" Miss Puyallup
2017-2018 Puyallup /
Blackfeet
Kathy Lynn
Scabbyrobe "Scabbyrobe" Puyallup /
Kainai
Valahlena
Rahyne Steeprock "Little
Fox" Red Lake Band
of Chippewa / Mohawk / Seneca / Ponca
Gabriella
Alexis Lilley "Lilley" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Eugene Jesse
White IV "White" Mr.
Basketball 2021 Arikara
Talor
Theodore Daniel Toavs "Buffalo
Man" Fort Peck
Assiniboine
Evy Lee Long
Chasing Soldier "Sacred
Colors" Hidatsa / Hunkpapa
Sioux
Greg Grey
Cloud "Charging
Lance" Crow Creek Sioux
Hunter Jayne
Archambault "Turtle
Stone Woman" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa
Kray'Lea Mae
Rose Archambault "Archambault" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa
Red Rock
Eagle Standing "Red
Rock Eagle Standing" MHA Nation
Agnes Marie
Woodward "Wind
Woman" Plains Cree
Tha-Changleska Luta Hoksila "His Red
Hoop Boy" Standing Rock Sioux /
MHA Nation with mother Alayna
Lee Eagle Shield
Takini Long
Chasing Soldier "Iron
Woman" Hunkpapa Sioux /
Hidatsa
Chozey Joran
Morsette "Morsette" Arikara / Dakota
Nakoosa Stara
Moreland "Where
The Three Rivers Meet" The Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde
Nakeezaka
Suloostu Jack "Breaks The
Belt" Shoshone Bannock /
Dine
Oketwsha
Roberts "Snow" Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma
Sinte-Ska
Roberts "White Tail" Choctaw Nation of
Oklahoma
Shandin
Hashkeh Pete "The Sun
Rays" Salish / Navajo
Salisha Anne
Old Bull "Prays With Her
Water" Salish / Crow
Susan Ann
Halsey "Halsey" Standing Rock
Sioux
Timothy
Hunts-In-Winter "Hunts In Winter" Standing Rock Sioux
Kylie Lynn
Hunts-In-Winter "Brave Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Leslie Faye
Crow "Sacred Fan Woman" Ihanktowan Sioux
Kaylee Corral
Hall "Hall" Sioux /
Mandan / Arikara / Hidatsa
Ronald Dale
Brugh "War Pony" Mandan / Hidatsa War Pony Land &
Energy
Lisa Ranae
Miller "Miller" Ihanktowan
Sioux
Selena Rae
Tobacco "Tobacco" Oglala Lakota
Renae Goldinn
Wolf "Rising Sun
Woman" Isanti Dakota
Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska
Paris Don
Wolf "Comes From
Lightning" Oglala Sioux
Summer Loran
Bowman "She Who
Walks With Good Thoughts" Cheyenne
River Sioux
Eunice
Straight Head "Bright Shining Star
Woman" Cheyenne River Sioux
Anthony
Bennett Duncan "Yellowbird Dancing" San Carlos Apache / Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara 2020 Hoop
Dance World Champion
Laura Ann
Schad "Schad" Cheyenne River Lakota
Kelene
Annette Deer "Deer" Oklahoma Delaware /
Otoe / Navajo\
Snowbird
Rodriguez (Sapa Wiikit) "Snow Bird" Yaqui Yoeme / Apache
Taylor Jordan
Schad, Esq. "Schad" Cheyenne River Lakota
Naida
Medicine Crow "Searching For
Relatives Woman" Crow Creek Hunkpati
Dakota
Rika Daisy
Lee Powaukee "Happiness
Bringer Of Joy" Nez Perce
Beaux Matua
Vasquez "Blue Moon" Pechanga Band of
Luiseno Indians
Jasmin-Lalani
Fejerang "Fejerang" Cupa Umatac of Guam
Bryan Mathew
Vasquez "Roadrunner" Pechanga Band of
Luiseno Indians
Laureen Rose
Omeasoo "Omeasoo" Plains Cree
Victoria
Judith Brugh "Woman Goes Out" Mandan / Arikara Four Bears
Councilwoman 2006 to Present
Doris Jane
Omeasoo "Mother
Earth" Plains Cree Residential
School Survivor of Ermineskin
Indian Residential School
Morning-Glory
Omeasoo "Eagle Woman" Samson Cree
Irene Joyce
Omeasoo "Bear Woman
Standing In The Mountain" Plains Cree
Kenneth Elroy
Funmaker, Jr. "Big Bear" Ho-Chunk / Meskwaki
Cheryl Jane
Funmaker "The
Lightning Reveals Itself" Ho-Chunk / Standing
Rock Sioux
Helen
Cordelia Crow Ghost-Alkire "Woman Who
Holds Herself With High Honor" Standing Rock Sioux Great Granddaughter
of Chief Rain In The Face
Janet Louise
Alkire "Woman Who
Holds Herself With High Honor" Standing Rock Sioux
Lakota Tribal
Chairwoman of Standing Rock 2021
Owaissa
Evelyn Thelen "Blue Sky
Woman" Lac Courte Orellies
Band of Ojibwe / Forest County Potawatomi
Kimberly Sue
LaRonge "Edge Of The
Sky Woman" Lac Courte Orellies
Band of Ojibwe
Arden Ramay
Thelen "Feather
Woman" Lac Courte Orellies Band of Ojibwe
Travis
Charles Thelen "Little
Feather" Forest County
Potawatomi
Shawntay
Rosemary Iron Horse "People
Depend On Her" Oglala Lakota
Clay Flying
Eagle LaRocque "Red Elk
Whistling" Turtle Mountain
Pembina Chippewa
Wiley Joe
LaRocque "Cloud Chief" Turtle Mountain
Pembina Chippewa
Angela Rose
LaRocque "Singing
Bird" Forest Countyu
Potawatomi
Margaret Judy
Kakenowash Azure "Blue Sky
Striped Cloud Woman" Turtle Mountain
Pembina Chippewa Great Great
Grandaughter of Chief Buffalo
Ashlin Quill
LaRocque "Sheet
Lightning" Turtle Mountain
Pembina Chippewa
Amari Opichi
LaRocque "Hummingbird" Turtle Mountain
Pembina Chippewa
Kelvin Louis
Grant "The War
Hero" Omaha Tribe of
Nebraska
Alexander
James One Horn "One
Horn" Standing Rock
Hunkpapa Lakota
Zachary
Hunter McLaughlin "Standing
Thunder Cloud" Arikara / Lakota
Jendaya Zhane
Yellow Fat "Stands
In The Wind Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe
Reid Allen
Walker "Bird
Bear" Mandan / Hidatsa
Michael Paul
Faith "Buffalo
Soldier" Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman
Standing Rock Sioux Nation 2017-2021
Cheryle
Danielle Good Bird "Uses Cedar
In Ceremonies Woman" Mandan /
Hidtasa
Maka Akan
Najin Black Elk "Prancing Ram" Oglala Lakota Executive Director of
Red Cloud Indian School Great Great Great
Grandson of Nicholas Black Elk
Dakotah Rae Jourdain "Red Road
Woman" Crow Creek
Sioux Dakota / Red Lake Ojibwe of Minnesota
Oliver Thomas
Roan Ramsey "Speaks With His Mind
Boy" Standing Rock Sioux (with Tiffany Julia
Baker-Ramsey "Dreams With Horses Woman")
Lyda Jade
Spotted Bear "Eagle
Woman" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara / Dakota Sioux
Denver Bryce
Spotted Bear "Rolling Thunder" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Thaine Keaton
Thunder Hawk "Crow Ghost" Oglala Lakota
/ Hunkpapa Sioux
Dustin Chad
Thunder Hawk "Thunder Hawk" Standing Rock
Sioux / Oglala Lakota / Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Collin Tru
Hale "Buffalo
Looking" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Mescalero Apache / Dine
Avis Ann
Little Eagle "Little Eagle" Standing Rock
Sioux
Matthew
Steven Schanandore "Schanandore" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Oneida
"Modern Native Park Ranger"
Sonja Alaynee
Snider "Good Day Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Lluvia
Jazlene Uribe-Kitto "Bright Woman" Isanti Sioux
/ Yankton Sioux
Sandra Gail
Berlin "Star Woman" Anishinaabe /
Dakota
Wanda Jean
Water "Walks For Them" Oglala Sioux Great Great
Granddaughter of Chief Calico
Zailey Gail
Gartner "Sacred Elk Bone
Whistle Woman" Anishinaabe / Dakota
Trista Jade
Azure "Azure" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Emily Grace
Poitra "Red Shadow
Woman" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Angie Lynn
Decoteau "White Buffalo
Earth Woman" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Hunter Gray
Decoteau "Ocean Bear" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
James Joseph
Decoteau "Strong Heart
Man" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Shanda Lynn
Poitra "Corn Silk
Woman" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Connie Lynn
Filesteel "Good Woman" Aaniiih /
Nakoda
Kateri
Lulyala Murphy "Murphy" Standing Rock Sioux
Laila Ann
Marie Murphy "Murphy" Standing Rock
Sioux
Mabahi
Thayden Arthur Baker "Singer" Mandan / Hidatsa
Susseli
Nizhoni Pete "Baby Bear" Navajo /
Klamath
Siliye
Tiznahbah Pete "White Ermine" Bitter Root Salish /
Navajo / Klamath
Michael
Crandall Bissonette "Walks With
Spotted Eagle Feather" Oglala Sioux Great
Grandson of Chief Stabber
Gregory Seth
LeBeau "Two Spirit" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa / Cheyenne River Lakota
Sioux
Marilyn Rose
Keeps Eagle "Keeps Eagle Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
George
Bernard Keeps Eagle "Keeps Eagle" Standing Rock Sioux
Adison Kole
Vetter "White Butterfly
Woman" Standing Rock
Sioux
Zahiyah Cash
Negonsott "Running Buffalo" Lakota / Kickapooo
Gisele
Wichoni Tobacco "Strong Girl With
Shawl" Lakota /
Kickapooo
Francisca
Tobacco "Tobacco" Lakota
Black Spotted
Horse "Black Spotted Horse" Hunkpapa
Mayo James
Pena "Blue Warrior" Standing Rock Sioux /
Gila River Hope
Kiya Kay-Lynn
Bruno "Bruno" Cree First Nation
Sidney
Ahuaiti Kineaka Nehua-Jackson "Nehua-Jackson" Maori from New
Zealand
Amanda Sue
Schaefle "Shaefle" Red Lake Ojibwe
Tobias Lee
Two Crow "Loud Voice" Mandan / Hidatsa /
Arikara
Eden Rose
Cavanaugh "Carries A Good
Banner Woman" Miss Spirit
Lake 2021-2022 Spirit Lake Dakota
Chad Curtis
Simon "Simon" Cree First Nation
Eloisa Garcia
Tamez, RN, PhD, FAAN "Tamez" Lipan Apache
Band of Texas
Teagan Rae
Decoteau "Little Drum" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Nicole Rose
Gipp "Gipp" Standing Rock
Sioux
Ashtyn Reece
Jerome "Jerome" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Danica
Victory White "Red Eagle Girl" Arikara /
Dakota
Kody Joyce
Murphy "Good Teacher
Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Izsak Howard
Davis "Red Fox" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Corey Lee
Davis, Sr. "Talking Raven" Hunkpapa Sioux /
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Sydnee Rae
Davis "Blue Bird" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Corey Lee
Davis, Jr. "Thunderbird
Warrior" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Sonya Rae
Davis "Giving Woman" Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa
Lonna LaRae
Peters "Talks For
Herself" Nez Perce /
Yakama
Marilyn Susan
Peters "One Who Does
Not Smile" Nez Perce /
Yakama
Skyla Rae
Temens "Hummingbird In
Clear Sky" Nez Perce /
Yakama / Navajo
Marcus
Dominick Levings "White Headed
Eagle" Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara / Sioux / Yakama
Misty Blue
Young Bear, RN "Bayokia" Meskwaki /
Omaha
Dennis Allen
Young Bear "Bear Skin" Meskwaki
Okoye Xavier
Young Bear "Friend" Meskwaki
Harrison
Martin Young Bear "Young Bear" Meskwaki
Elaina
Christine Poitra "Standing Strong
Woman" Chippewa Band of
Indians
Loretta Mae
DeLong, Ed.D. "Cedar Roots
Woman" Turtle
Mountain Pembina Chippewa
Arlene Louise
Gourneau-Poitra "Gourneau" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Summitt
Sahara Baker "Guides Woman" Nueta /
Hidatsa
Sashay Shyan
Schettler "Owl Woman" Nueta / Hidatsa
Jake Jimmy
Tiger "Snake" Seminole
Nation
Isabella
Aiukli Cornell "Beauty" Choctaw
Trinity Faith
Dixon "Dixon" Hidatsa / Isleta
Laguna Pueblo / Cochiti
Lilly Chene
Rose Dixon "Evergreen" Hidatsa / Isleta
Laguna Pueblo / Cochiti
Patricia
Charlene Dixon "Otter Comes
Out" Hidatsa / Isleta
Laguna Pueblo / Cochiti
Monica Martha
Dixon "Circle Around
The Sun" Isleta Laguna Pueblo
/ Cochiti
Julianne Paige Smart "Smart" Standing Rock Sioux
Wioweste Olowan Cook
(with Mother) "Love Song" Cheyenne River Sioux
Jodie Lea Wallette "Shell Woman" Turtle Mountain Band
of Ojibwe
Vita Marie Graham "Woman Standing In
The Back" Turtle Mountain Band
of Ojibwe
Frances Lorraine Merz "Woman With A
Strong Inner Voice" Standing Rock Sioux (Mdedwakanton)
Thomas William Red
Bird "Lone Man" Cheyenne River Sioux
Destiny Marie Big
Crow "Sacred Red
Star Woman" Oglala Lakota /
Navajo
Jhoni Kayue Big Crow "Her Dwelling Cloud
Woman" Navajo / Oglala
Lakota
Redsky Starr "Sacred Bear" MHA Nation / Yankton
Sioux
Karin Maureen Eagle "Song Of The
Brightest Star" Oglala Lakota
Austin H. Gillette "White
Shield" Arikara
Shawn Goodluck "Whistling Eagle" Dine
Dion Taylor Bolman "Four Bulls" Hidatsa / Mandan /
Arikara / Hunkpapa
Gerald Anthony
Jefferson "Bear Turns Itself
Around And Makes Them Well" Hidatsa / Hunkpapa
Sidney Jo Bechtold "Yellow Fox
Woman" Rosebud Sioux
Shelly Ward "Red Buffalo
Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Elliott Curtis Ward "Many Deeds" Standing Rock Sioux
Rayanne Annette Wise
Spirit "Wise Spirit" Standing Rock Sioux
Julianna Nichole
Arellano "Sweet Grass" Mandan / Hidatsa /
Arikara
Alexander Moses
Lambert "Walks With
Staff" Arikara / Hunkpapa
Sioux
Caelen John Lohnes "Red Buffalo" Spirit Lake Dakota
Nation
Asia Mae Jeanotte "Jeanotte" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Chante James Lambert "Bear Heart" Spirit Lake Dakota
Nation
Shaydi Summer Falcon "Dancing Butterfly" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Blanche Marie Falcon "Rainbow
Woman" Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa
Donovan Gerald Lambert "Bear Shield" Spirit Lake Dakota
Nation
Yanabah Eagle Horse Fox "Eagle Horse" Arikara / Mandan /
Hidatsa / Navajo
Sylvia Julia Joanna Bissonette "Early Light Woman" Oglala / Grand
Traverse Chippewa Direct Descendant of
Chief Pontiac
Twila Marie White Bull "Good Woman" Hunkpapa / Oglala
Lakota / Mni Coujou
Todd Justin Howling Wolf "Howling Wolf" Mandan / Hidatsa /
Arikara
Tiana Tashina Howling Wolf "Lucky Day Woman" Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara
Charlie Nicole Cuny "Red Hawk Woman" Oglala Lakota
Brandon Gene Brave Heart "Thunder Tail" Northern Cheyenne / Oglala Lakota
Aidan Gabriel Weddell "Weddell" Yankton Sioux / Rosebud Sioux
Audrey Carmen Rayn Abdo "Yellow Buffalo Woman" Yankton Sioux / Rosebud Sioux / Santee Sioux
Jessica Naomi Howling Wolf "Alert Deer Woman" Mandan / Hidatsa / Omaha
Dennis Howling Wolf, Jr. "Wild Horse" Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara
Frankie Jo Morin "White Buffalo" Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe
Chance Lee-Ross Harris-Poitra "Poitra" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Noah Ree Fox "Roaming Wolf" Arikara / Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe
Denise Kathryn Lajimodiere "White Thundercloud Woman" Ojibwe
Kiera Antonique Fox "Winter Breeze" MHA Nation / Turtle Mt. Band of Ojibwe / Southern Cheyenne / Nakoda
Sonia Jade Annis "Annis" Lakota
Dayla Alea Taylor "Taylor" Isanti Dakota
Gavyn Taylor Spotted Tail "Travels Alone" Rosebud Sioux
Judge Andew Lester Laverdure "White Buffalo" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Tatianna Faith Wright "Woman Who Stands Strong" Pejutazizi / Sisseton Wahpeton
James Patrick Grinnell "Eagle Whistler" Hidatsa / MHA Nation
Shania Mary RedOwl "Woman With A Loving Heart" Isanti Dakota
LacyJay Redwing "Returns Woman" Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
Ash James Bowman "Bowman" Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Tusweca Win "Dragonfly Woman" Cheyenne River Sioux / Oglala Sioux
Chantaille Kayla Dawn Running Bear "Always Thinking While She Is Walking Woman" Sioux Valley Dakota Nation / Standing Rock Sioux
Myah Jade Red Horse "Helps Amongst The People" Cheyenne River Sioux
Connie Lea Baker "Red Cloud" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Luke Gregory Baker "Walks In A Good Way" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Jayli Lashaundrey Fimbres "Sacred Shawl Woman" Mandan / Hidatsa / Arikara
Duane Romaine McGillis
"Holy Man"
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
J. Garret Renville Chairman of Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe "The Man Who Stands In The Holy Lodge" Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux / Omaha / Seneca
Destiny Shay Jundt "Blue Spotted Spirit Woman" Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux
Moses James Lambert "American Horse" Hunkpapa Sioux / Oglala Sioux / Arikara
Jaimie Rose Little Bear "Little Bear" Hunkpapa Lakota
Chaske Little Bear "Little Bear" Standing Rock Sioux
Brently Paul Condon "Condon" Standing Rock Sioux
Wambdi Wakiyan Clairmont "Leader Of The People Boy" Lakota / Dakota / Ojibwe / Meskwaki / Taos Pueblo
Cree Rayah Sage Delorme "Thunderbird Woman Calling From Afar" Cree / Ojibwe / Dakota
Eya Conape Tasunka Fox "One Who's Good With Horses" Arikara / Hidatsa / Hunkpapa Lakota
Alberta Lorraine Miner "Beautiful Eagle Winged Woman" Cheyenne River Sioux
Tsulasgi James Lone Wolf "Gator" Cherokee
Brenda Sue Cordova "Elk Woman" Standing Rock Sioux
Amaya Patricia Eloise Ramsey "Ramsey" Standing Rock Sioux
Carmelita Lamb, PhD "Lamb" Lipan Band of Apache
Syer Saige-Migiziins Laducer "Little Medicine Eagle" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Jeremy Lee Laducer "Big Bear" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Kenley Cristga Hamley "Hamley" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa / Mandan /
Hidatsa / Arikara
Durand Lee Hamley, III "Hamley" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa / Mandan / Hidatsa /
Arikara
Catlyn Isaac Little Eagle "Swift Eagles" Standing Rock Hunkpapa Sioux
Charley Alana Little Eagle "Blue Eyes Woman" Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux
Ndaanis Bineeshi Ikwe Herman "Little Bird Woman" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Gaylan George Little Eagle "Brave Eagle" Standing Rock Hunkpapa Sioux
Deland James Davis, Jr. "Davis" Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa / Oglala Sioux /
Hunkpapa Sioux
Lovelee Joy Holy Bull "Pretty Voice Crane Woman" Spirit Lake Dakota / Cheyenne River Sioux
Seneca Jade Skunk "Fighter Survivor Woman" Lower Brule Sioux / Lakota
Kansas James Middletent "Crazy Bronc Rider" Lakota
Lael MacKenzie Middletent "Good Voice Woman" Lower Brule Sioux
Lindalee Bruner "Northstar" Anishinabe Ojibwe Chippewa
Megan Denise White Bear "Ree Woman" MHA Nation / Arikara
Beverly Jean White Bear "Plum Woman" MHA Nation / Arikara
Cindy Marie Farlee "Song Bird Woman" Cheyenne River Sioux
Jake Jordan Fox "Thunder Wolf" MHA Nation / Standing Rock Sioux
Jonnie Vera Lorraine Huerta "She Grows Her Medicine" Fort Peck Sioux / Dakota
Conwin Eldrick Blake Iceman "Redtail Hawk" Fort Peck Sioux / Dakota
Larry Eugene Fasthorse "Bear Cloud" Standing Rock Sioux
Donald Eugene Iceman, IV "Osprey Hawk" Fort Peck Sioux / Dakota
Jalen Chase Atchico "Red Buffalo" Fort Peck Sioux
Miko Star Brule "Brule" Apache / Aztec
Katalina Tay
Shearer "Orange Bird
Woman" Turtle Mountain
Ojibwe / Hunkpapa Lakota
Cordell Todd Mann "Iron Eyes" Hidatsa
Hannah Wreylin Roubideaux "Standing With
A Strong Heart Woman" Rosebud Lakota Sioux / Crow Creek Dakota Sioux
Shawna Brooke Lambert "Looking For Eagle
Woman" Hunkpati Dakota / Sicangu Lakota
Kristopher George White, Sr. "Hits The Bear" Spirit Lake Dakota Sioux
James Elden St. John "Saint John" Crow Creek Hunkpati Dakota
Karrie Allison Zephier "Woman Born In
The Black Hills" Lower Brule Sioux
Julyana Rachael Dubray "Porcelain Face" Sicangu / Oglala
Sallie Maurine
Thurman "Greystone" Standing Rock
Sioux
Mimikwas Kalika Mae Acikahte "Butterfly Rosebud" Cowessess First Nation / Saulteaux / Assiniboine Cowessess Princess 2019-2023
Tyeshia Jayne Natewa "One Feather Woman" Cree / Ojibwe / Pueblo Zuni
Maddox Rain Eagle "Eagle Souring Upwards" Cheyenne River Sioux
Elizabeth Rae Eagle "Red Shawl Woman" Cheyenne River Sioux
Kelli Rae Roberts "Borrows From Her" Cheyenne River Sioux
Donna Rosha Pike "Walking Wind Woman" Isanti
Janay Rose St. John "Has A Tail" Crow Creek Sioux
Yolanda Marie
Aguilera "She Who Talks
To The Little People" Crow Creek
Sioux
Asanti James Aguilera "Elk Soldier, He Who Dances For His People" Crow Creek Sioux
Laleeya Lita Aguilera "Red Woman" Crow Creek Sioux
Musee d'Archeologie
Nationale in France
Your plates and your book safely arrived this morning at the
museum. It is a wonderful gift and
I cannot thank you enough for this. The plates are even more
beautiful when you have them in hands; the surface
is in itself something to admire.
Your approach is not very far from ours, as
archaeologists. We extract things from the past and you offer
things to the future, but all these things are snapshots of
their times: they are fossils in a way, messages in a bottle for
time travelers, which have been launched in the flow of time.
Your images annihilate the distance of time, between past and
present. They are somewhere in between.
But the challenge is not to make pictures of this American
nostalgia for the vanished American Indian, since your images
may also be watched “as if nothing had happen”: the “Indians”
are still there, as they were in the past, when in fact they
have been facing an attempt to erase them, which is not
completely over by the way. In other words, there is a risk that
the success of your images would be based on a false
interpretation of the public: there is no reason, some would
say, to worry about any “Indian Problem”, since, hey look, they
are still wearing their feathers…
What makes the difference, for me, is your art. Art is a form of
truth. It lays in the sights you catch, the body attitude you
get, the silent thoughts and feelings that impress the picture.
The uncatchable inheritance of the previous generations, the
many invisible scares of history. Your work is about finding the
deep truth of these people, no matter what one may think or
believe. And themselves, they have to be ready or able to offer
that to you. It is a huge responsibility, since this is this
truth which is going to be transmitted to the future, though
your plates – as an archive of our time. Digging for the inner
truth of the past, and transmitting it, is basically what we do,
as archaeologists. You are digging for the inner truth of the
present, which is in fact exactly the same thing – since every
past has been one day the present.
We are a few following this uncertain path. But we know each
other.
With all the very best,
Laurent
February 6th, 2020
"Empowerment Through Unity"
United Tribes Technical College Pow Wow 2016
"Required P.O. Box Not Allowed!"
A Political Wet Plate to Address Native American Voter Suppression
http://hpr1.com/index.php/feature/news/voter-suppression-begins/
Father John
Floberg,
"Nape Wakan" which translates as "Holy Hand", Rector at the Saint James
Episcopal Church at Cannon Ball
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Margaret Landin,
"Beautiful Evening Star Woman", Arikara Hidatsa
Assiniboine Native American liaison, friend
and collaborator for Northern Plains Native Americans: A
Modern Wet Plate Perspective
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"Uncovering
Our Lost Children"
with Nakeezaka Jack (Breaks
The Belt) (Giving a voice to the Native children lost
to boarding schools)
Shane Balkowitsch, "Shadow Catcher" -
Maa'ishda tehxixi Agu'agshi (Hidatsa)
Nostalgic Glass Wet Plate Studio
2703 Big Sky Circle
Bismarck, ND 58503
shane@balkowitsch.com
(701)223-9936 Phone
CLICK HERE for "Collaboriting
with the past" blog interview by Pitt Rivers, May 2023
CLICK HERE for "A.I. Imagery May Destroy History As We Know It, April 24th,
2023
CLICK HERE
for "Using Lens To Tell Story of Native Americans", KXNews, September
20th, 2020
CLICK HERE
for "BE FIERCE", Congresswoman Deb Haaland, High Plains Reader, June 27th,
2019
CLICK HERE
for Radio Interview with Bob Harris, June 19th, 2019
CLICK HERE
for "Image Maker", Front Page of Minot Daily News, June 16th, 2019
CLICK HERE for "To Be A Shadow Catcher" March 7th, 2019 
CLICK HERE
for Radio Interview "Wet Plate Photographs by Shane Balkowitsch" September
18th, 2018
I am happy to have found one more friend.
Head Curator of Celtic and Gallic Archaeology, National Museum
of Archaology (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France)
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"Love Water, Not Oil" with Dale American Horse, Jr.
(Plate #1 of the NO Dakota Access Pipeline Series)
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"Death by Oil" with Darren Thompson
(Plate #2 of the NO Dakota Access Pipeline Series)
First Place Best Photograph - Human Rights Film & Arts Festival, Fargo, North Dakota November 18th, 2017
Original Plate Curated by the Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
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"Tolerance by Oppression" with Sophie Landin
(Plate #3 of the NO Dakota Access Pipeline Series)
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"No Spiritual Surrender" with Floris White Bull
(Plate #4 of the NO Dakota Access Pipeline Series)
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"Columbus Landed, Columbus Fell" with Allan Demaray and Lance Loken
(Pushing Back Against Columbus Day for my Friends)
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"The Unheard" with Dalli Keplin (Blue Shooting Star Woman)
(Raising Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman - MMIW)
Native
Fashion in A.I. featured in Native Max Magazine with Shane Balkowitsch
7-15-2023
Mural
to Recognize First Native American Miss North Dakota USA with Sanoah
LaRocque 7-27-2022
My
Wet Plate of Floris White Bull is featured in the movie AWAKE - A Dream from
Standing Rock
Photo Essay: Shadow Catcher, February 26th, 2020
Indian Country Today Article Featuring Wet Plate of Cheyenne Kippenberger
April 12, 2021
American Indians Through the Lens of Roland Reed at The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum
March 30, 2019 - My Original Plates on DisplayNorthern Plains Native Americans: Exhibition at the Rourke Museum August 24, 2018
Shane Presenting Floris White Bull with Glass Print at the ND Human Rights Film Festival Opening Night 11-17-2017
"Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective" Opening Night KFYR TV 11-3-2017
"Northern Plains Native Americans: A Modern Wet Plate Perspective" featured in
POW WOW Magazine 10-29-2017My Wet Plate "Death by Oil" is featured in the article "Culture Shift" by YES! Magazine
CLICK HERE see the Economists "Edward's Curtis's Life and Photography" Video
CLICK HERE to "Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Eldest Tribal Member Celebrates 100 Years" 11-08-2016
Documenting Dakota Pipeline Protests in Wet Plate, Fargo Forum, August 15th, 2016
High Plains Reader, "Water and Oil Do Not Mix", August
25th, 2016
High Plains Reader,
"Can't Drink Oil",
September 15th, 2016
High Plains Reader, "Death
by Oil"
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High Plains Reader, "Death
by Oil"
High Plains Reader, "Death
by Oil",
December 22th, 2016
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