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
American Bison, Bison bison (Linnaeus), Tȟatȟáŋka (Lakȟóta)
2021
Ink on Tyvek, Sintra panel
16" x 24"

American Bison

Bison bison (Linnaeus)

Tȟatȟáŋka (Lakȟóta)

The Lakota are famous as a warrior tribe, with many famous warrior men; and yet “White Buffalo Woman is the dominant figure of their most important legend.” As Lakota medicine man Crow Dog puts it, “‘This holy woman brought the sacred buffalo calf pipe to the Sioux. There could be no Indians without it. Before she came, people didn't know how to live. They knew nothing. The Buffalo Woman put her sacred mind into their minds.’” And though she first came to the Lakota as a human woman, “White Buffalo Woman was also a buffalo—the Indians' brother, who gave its flesh so that the people might live” (Looking Horse & Giese, "WHITE BUFFALO CALF WOMAN Brings The First Pipe; As told by John Fire Lame Deer, in 1967").

 

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