ARTIST TALK: Dawn E. LeBeau, Wanápín Sapa Wíŋ

TITUNWAN WÍŊYAŊ ETÁŊHAŊ PI / WOMEN OF THE TITUNWAN began as a way to honor one woman and grew into a visual collaboration of many from the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation: matriarchs, artists, activists, historians, policy makers, land stewards, gardeners and educators. The stories that live through this photographic portrait series document the women known as the heart of the community, whose collective work upholds Lakota values and guides the traditions and healing in community. Dawn E. LeBeau, a photographer from the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation in South Dakota co-created these portraits with the women from the Očeti Sakowin Titunwan bands of the Mnicoujou, Siha Sapa, Itazipčo, and Oóhenuŋpa on the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation.

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