American Bison
- ink on tyvek
- Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez
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Not For Sale
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").
For this collection, the artist would like to acknowledge the following people:
Thomas Gannon, Associate Professor, English and Ethnnic Studies, UNL for writing the accompanying texts. Sofía F. Echeverry for her work as studio assistant.
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombo-American, mid-career artist with an interdisciplinary practice. She grew up in Colombia as the child of a Colombian and a United States citizen and migrated to the US as an adult. Her art is about the curious and intense experience of having physically migrated, yet still having a piece of herself rooted in Colombia. She is creating an intersectional feminist visual novel that is a multifaceted project comprised of paintings, sculptures, objects, and mixed media that together—and in different voices—weave a synchronicity of dialogues, passages, and punctuations about hybridity and cultural ownership.
- Created: June 2021
- Inventory Number: 20V.750.2021
- Current Location: University of Nebraska Lincoln - Enterprise Technology at Nebraska Hall - 1400 R St Lincoln, NE 68588 (google map)
- Collections: 1. New Acquisitions, University of Nebraska Lincoln