Pine Ridge Reservation
Title: Reservations – Pine Ridge is Beauty
Subject: Love, Relationships to Land, and Perseverance of Native and First Nations communities on Reservations and Reserves (Pine Ridge Reservation)
Created: 2022
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
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“The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Lakota: Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located almost entirely within the U.S. state of South Dakota, with a small portion in Nebraska. Originally included within the territory of the Great Sioux Reservation, Pine Ridge was created by the Act of March 2, 1889, 25 Stat. 888. in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border. Today it consists of 3,468.85 sq mi (8,984 km2) of land area and is one of the largest reservations in the United States.
The reservation encompasses the entirety of Oglala Lakota County and Bennett County, the southern half of Jackson County, and a small section of Sheridan County added by Executive Order No. 2980 of February 20, 1904. Of the 3,142 counties in the United States, these are among the poorest. Only 84,000 acres (340 km2) of land are suitable for agriculture. The 2000 census population of the reservation was 15,521, but a study conducted by Colorado State University and accepted by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has estimated the resident population to reach 28,787.”
– Wikipedia, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
“The Oglala (pronounced [oɡəˈlala], meaning “to scatter one’s own” in Lakota language) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Dakota, make up the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires). A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the eighth-largest Native American reservation in the United States.
The Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Lakota Nation (previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota). However, many Oglala reject the term “Sioux” due to the hypothesis (among other possible theories) that its origin may be a derogatory word meaning “snake” in the language of the Ojibwe, who were among the historical enemies of the Lakota. They are also known as Oglála Lakhóta Oyáte.”
– Wikipedia, Oglala
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Reservations
Reservations is a print project by Ihanktonwan Dakota artist David Bernie that highlights the love, relationships to land, and perseverance of Native and First Nations communities on reservations and reserves.
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