But historically I researched that by 1850 the buffalo were pretty much all gone from the plains and we as native people here on the northern plains had to find a new way to keep our historical records.
But every time I’d get to a show they would compare me to Herman Red Elk, which I was his student so naturally, I did what he did. So I learned the fundamental of painting hides and tanning all the way up to illustrating and finally painting them and presenting them. I feel very strongly in my presentations of ledgers because my mentor was a hide painter from Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.
What Id like to talk about is my ledger art. She’s the curator at the Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City. My youngest daughter is 18 and just got accepted into IAIA in Sante Fe, New Mexico, which is really a coup for me because that’s where I went to school and basically learned all my artwork that I use today. I have a family of three: an older daughter, a son, and a younger daughter. I’m an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Reservation and that’s located in South Dakota.īasically, I guess I had my formal art training here in Rapid City, South Dakota where I live currently.
