Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • MESTIZA DOS VECES: A VISUAL NOVEL
  • Artesanías de Colombia Collaboration
  • Chapter 7: Panopticon, A Collaborative Chapter with Charley Friedman
  • Chapter 6: Casta Paintings
  • Chapter 5: River
  • Chapter 4: Cornucopia
  • Chapter 3: Travelers & Settlers
  • Chapter 2: Deluge
  • Chapter 1: New Taxonomies
  • Prologue
  • Footnotes
  • EXHIBITION & INSTALLATION VIEWS
    • Casta Paintings, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019
    • Palimpsests, University of South Dakota, 2019
    • SUNY Stony Brook, two-person show with Charley Friedman, 2018
    • Monarchs, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 2017-2018
    • Chapter 5: River, The Union for Contemporary Art, 2017
    • Travelers and Settlers, Black & White Gallery, 2016
    • Travelers, Project Project Gallery, 2016
    • Realty/Reality, two-person show with Charley Friedman, 2014
    • Bernice Steinbaum Gallery 2010
    • Collette Blanchard Gallery 2009
  • Nebraska's Fauna & Flora: Other Histories. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Translations and Texts by Thomas Gannon
  • Duncan Aviation
  • Instituto Caro y Cuervo
  • Celebrity Cruises/International Corporate Art
  • Women's Center for Advancement
  • PORTFOLIO ARCHIVE
    • Word Drawings
    • Lace Drawings
    • Black Drawings
  • Statement In Spanish
  • Statement In English
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
Sandhill Crane, Grus canadensis (Linnaeus), Petʰoⁿ qude (Umónhon)
2021
Ink on Tyvek, Sintra panel
32" x 48"

Sandhill Crane

Grus canadensis (Linnaeus)

Petʰoⁿ qude (Umónhon)

The Sandhill Crane is one of the main clan animals of the Ojibwe of Minnesota. Ojibwe author Gerald Vizenor’s autobiography is largely the story of being an urban, mixed-up mixed-blood boy, largely divested of his tribal heritage; and yet when the troubled teen retreats under a St. Paul bridge one night, he invokes his family’s clan relationship with the bird: “[t]he tricksters soared in magical flight over the woodland, and the crane must have sounded in my dream that night” (Interior Landscapes). “Cranes are associated with good luck in many Native American tribes. Native fishermen, especially, used to consider it a good omen to see a crane while fishing. In some Native American folklore, Crane plays the role of peacemaker. In others, he is notable for his vanity. To the Ojibwe tribes, cranes represented leadership and skill at speaking, and the Cheyennes associated sandhill cranes with lightning.” (Native American Crane Mythology)

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