Dreaming our Futures: Ojibwe and Ochéthi Šakówiƞ Artists and Knowledge Keepers

Dreaming our Futures: Ojibwe and Ochéthi Šakówiƞ Artists and Knowledge KeepersDreaming Our Futures features twenty eight Native painters, primarily Dakota and Ojibwe, who live in the Midwest or have family or tribal connections here. The artists represent a range of generations, professional experience, and genresincluding traditional, historical, contemporary, and conceptual themes. The volume presents full color reproductions of art by each painter, along with bilingual artist statements, biographies, and essays on the

once I opened my heart to the Creator's love and allowed it to live through me

Mathias Ball’s vibrant illustrations bring each page of acclaimed author Francine Cunningham’s debut picture book to life

Traci Sorell

As the spiritual translation of the sacred laws

She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium

part origin myth about the Messenger’s Feast – which is still celebrated in times of bounty among the Iñupiaq

"Goodnight birds singing each other to sleep

" Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and bears witness to the peril faced by women in regions overcome by the fracking boom

depression

Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares memories of her home in Shiprock

if removed and assembled into one whole image

via a compendium of birds recorded and revered