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
Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord), Moⁿthíⁿqude (Umónhon)
2021
Ink on Tyvek, Sintra panel
16" x 24"

Black-tailed Prairie Dog

Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord)

Moⁿthíⁿqude (Umónhon)

With the advent of settler colonialism, the prairie dog’s status on the Great Plains has been nearly as tenuous as that of the American Bison and Native Americans. Ranchers, especially, have waged constant war against these critters: “They have a bagful of grain hanging from their saddle horns, and whenever they see a prairie-dog hole they toss a handful of oats in it, like a kind little old lady feeding the pigeons in one of your city parks. Only the oats for the prairie dogs are poisoned with strychnine. What happens to the prairie dog after he has eaten this grain is not a pleasant thing to watch. The prairie dogs are poisoned, because they eat grass. A thousand of them eat up as much grass in a year as a cow. So if the rancher can kill that many prairie dogs he can run one more head of cattle, make a little more money.” (Fire & Erdoes, Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions).

 

Prairie Sage

Artemisia ludoviciana (Nuttall)

Pȟežíȟota (Lakȟóta)

This is the ceremonial plant of many Great Plains tribes: “Leaves and stems burned as incense and used for ‘smudging.’ That is, the sage is burned and the smoke breathed in, and wafted all over the body to purify one's self.” (L. Black Elk, “Culturally Important Plants of the Lakota”).

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