Gray Goldenrod, Western Meadowlark
- ink on tyvek
- Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez
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Not For Sale
Gray Goldenrod
Solidago nemoralis (Aiton)
Zhá-sage-zi (Umónhon)
Traditional Lakota medicine included using a “decoction of the entire [goldenrod] plant [. . .] to expel kidney stones” (L. Black Elk, “Culturally Important Plants of the Lakota”). This is likely related to the plant’s more widely known use as a diuretic. You can now buy Native-produced goldenrod tea on the internet: “Goldenrod Tea is used to reduce pain and swelling (inflammation), as a diuretic to increase urine flow, and to stop muscle spasms” (Lakota Made, “Goldenrod Tea”).
Western Meadowlark
Sturnella Neglecta (Audubon)
Tȟašíyagnuŋpa (Lakȟóta)
For the Lakota people, the Western Meadowlark is considered nearly family, the “bird who speaks Lakota.” According to Julian Rice, “Unlike the animals of Romantic and much twentieth-century British and American poetry, the meadowlark is neither more nor less blessed than man; rather, he exists in the Lakota consciousness as both model and messenger” (“How the Bird that Speaks Lakota Earned a Name,” in Swann and Krupat, Recovering the Word).
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.
- Edition: Yes
- Created: June 2021
- Inventory Number: 20V.751.2021
- 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