by Marlena Myles | May 26, 2020 | Free Resources, Native Art
Free Download of Tufawon Lyrics coloring page Poster Coloring sheet by Marlena Myles (Spirit Lake Dakota) This poster I created to celebrate Native American Month in Minnesota. I teamed up with Tufawon (lyrics from his song Sagepatch Kid) and Hennepin County Library...
by Marlena Myles | Oct 29, 2019 | Native Art, News Articles
To the Dakota people, Ȟemníčhaŋ (Hemnican) / Barn Bluff is one of the most sacred places in the world The City of Red Wing, Minnesota had a call for a creative artist to listen to community voices to add to the different associations people in the area have to...
by Marlena Myles | Jun 9, 2019 | Exhibition Review, Native Art
I had the fantastic opportunity to curate a case at the Minneapolis Institute of Art for their revamped Native galleries to coincide with their new Native women artist exhibition in the special galleries. It wasn’t too hard for me to decide to go with Dakota and...
by Marlena Myles | Mar 5, 2018 | Native Art
I used to be one of those people who hated seeing the American flag at powwows on reservations. Then I read a scholarly report about the American flag imagery throughout Native art and cultures for the Plains tribes. It helped me understand the meaning from Native...