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Wendy Red Star is an Apsáalooke artist born in Billings, Montana, and based in Portland, Oregon. Red Star mines archival materials from photographs, maps, legal documents, recordings, artworks, to sacred objects that speak to the multivalence of Apsáalooke experience. Using a wide range of mediums and strategies from photography to installation, Red Star challenges existing histories of Native Americans, particularly related to her Crow heritage and from a distinctly feminist Indigenous perspective. (Summarized from Forward.)

Wendy Red Star : delegation is one of our newest acquisitions. We’re honoring Native American Heritage Month this month!

Image 1: “Fall” from Four Seasons, 2006

Image 2, 3 & 4: Detail from “Um-basax-bilua (W here They Make The Noise)”, 2017

Image 5: Book cover including the image from “Her Dreams Are True (Julia Bad Boy)”, 2021

Wendy Red Star : delegation Featuring contributions by Jordan Amirkhani, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Josh T. Franco, Annika K. Johnson, Layli Long Soldier, Tiffany Midge. New York, NY : Aperture ; Dallas, TX : Documentary Arts, 2022. 270 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm English 2022 HOLLIS number: 99156378795603941

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Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Native American Art Penni Anne Cross "Beautiful Woman at Night" Crow Tribe Art Print 16 x 20 Leanin' Tree Sidekick Prints Vintage 1979 #crowtribe #nativeamerican #tribalart #indigenous #west https://etsy.me/31YnsaE (at Clear Lake, Iowa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWMWRd4lP1I/?utm_medium=tumblr

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[medschooltutors]

Motivation courtesy of #CrowNation this #IndigenousPeoplesDay. #MondayMotivation

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Reposted from @zulufucxs - The man you are looking at is Joseph Medicine Crow, a war chief of the Crow Nation. Born near Lodge Grass, Montana, he enlisted in US Army in 1943, becoming a scout in the 103rd Infantry Division and fought in World War II. . Whenever he went into battle, he wore his war paint beneath his uniform and a sacred eagle feather beneath his helmet. Medicine Crow completed all four tasks required to become a war chief: Touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party and stealing an enemy's horse. He touched a living enemy soldier and disarmed an enemy when he turned a corner and found himself face to face with a young German soldier: The collision knocked the German's weapon to the ground. Mr. Crow lowered his own weapon and the two fought hand-to-hand. In the end Mr. Crow got the best of the German, grabbing him by the neck and choking him. He was going to kill the German soldier on the spot when the man screamed out 'momma.' Mr. Crow then let him go. He also led a successful war party and stole an enemy horse, making a midnight raid to steal the horses from a battalion of German officers (as he rode off, he sang a traditional Crow honor song.) He was the last member of the Crow tribe to become a war chief and the last Plains Indian war chief. His awards included the Bronze Star, the Legion of Honor and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. After the war, Medicine Crow earned a Master's Degree in anthropology, and the first member of his tribe to earn a Master's. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 102. #warchiefvsnazis #humbled #crowtribe #stayzero #zerofoxtrot #ww2 - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/BwA8ShCHZcC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6i5dsuj31hhe

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Can you imagine waking up and seeing this instead of a ceiling?dont forget to book me for your special occasion photo needs! I am having a cyber Monday special! Send me a message for more details #rope #wood #poles #buffloskin #teepee #tipi #nativeamerican #heritage #newmexicotrue #newmexico #complex #intricate #southwest #america #theywhereherefirst #respect #indians #nativeindian #history #americanhistory #nomadic #nomadictribe #nomadicindian #nomadicnativeamericans #siouxtribe #siouxindian #siouxnativeamerican #cheyennetribe #cheyenneindians #cheyennenativeamerican #crowtribe #crowindian #crownativeamerican #comanchetribe #comancheindian #comanchenativeamerican #blackfoottribe #blackfootindian #blackfootnativeamerican #greatplainstribes #greatplainsnativeamericans #photographer #photography #phototime #holiday #holidayspecial #thanksgiving #christmas #familytime #cybermonday #blackfriday #hazelbitephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/BqptXEWBJis/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wdz078ae0ocx

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[harvardfineartslib]

Wendy Red Star is a contemporary photographer and a multimedia artist who is a member of the Apsaálooke (Crow) tribe, raised in the Apsaálooke Reservation in Montana. Her work speaks to the complex interconnectedness of the present with colonial history in this country. From 2000 to 2004, Red Star studied art and Native American Studies as an undergraduate at Montana State University. She learned that the Crow Tribe’s traditional lands once stretched across most of present-day Wyoming and Montana (ca. 38.5 million acres), but it was reduced to less than 2.3 million acres between 1851 and 1905.

Red Star’s practice involves extensive archival research on the history and lands of the Crow Reservation. In her “1873 Crow Peace Delegation” project, she employs portrait photographs of the delegation members, using red pen to fill in the negative space with the individuals’ back stories and embellish certain details. For example, she highlights the peacock feather duster that Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) holds in this photograph, calling our attention to it. The rumor is that while visiting Washington D.C., the Crow Delegation attended a performance by a burlesque dancer, who gave each one a feather duster. Upon returning to the reservation, sub-chiefs and young Crow men wanted one of their own, thus creating a new fashion trend.

Red Star’s critical observations and extensive research on each historical image call for close looking and careful reading on the history of colonialism. The anecdotal story about feather dusters may be humorous, but it is also “a material reminder of the blatant disregard that government officials showed the Crow Delegation, and how far they would go to distract the delegation members from their crucial agenda of preserving Crow territories.” (p.50)

“It is critical to preserve and pass along culture, heritage, and shared values while also providing future generations with a sense of identity, solidarity, and empowerment.” – Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star’s work is currently on view at MassMoCA through May 2022.

Image 1: Front cover: Showing detail from “Apsaálooke Feminist #4,” 2016, Archival pigment print on photo paper, 35” x 42”

Image description: A woman and a child in Native American clothes posing for the camera

Image 2: Detail from “Portrait of Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) with His Wife, Ish-Ip-Chi-Wak-Pa-I-Chis (Good or Pretty Medicine Pipe),” 2017

Image description: Close-up of a young Native American woman gazing at the camera with texts written in red pen with arrows pointing to different parts of her. One arrow points to her head and the text reads 14 years old in 1873.

Image 3: Left page: “Portrait of Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) with His Wife, Ish-Ip-Chi-Wak-Pa-I-Chis (Good or Pretty Medicine Pipe),” 2017, Archival pigment print on photo paper, 25”x 17”

Right page: “Portrait of Crow Man, Se-Ta-Pit-Se (Packs the Bear or Bear Wolf) and His Wife, “Stays with the Horses,” 2017.

Image description: Page spreads showing two portrait photographs with texts written in red. Each portrait shows a man and woman in Native American clothes with a man holding a red feather duster.

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