Look Where You Stand. You Cannot Erase Us.

Acrylics, Porcupine Quills, Beads, Deer Skin + Leather Strips

This piece brings to light the extensive amount of genocide this country stands on, from the past to the present. Indigenous lives and rights are continuously endangered. The United States is and always has been a colonial nation. As we watch the violence unfold in Palestine, my heart aches for the generations of Palestinian youth that will carry this trauma through their generations. Just as we have with ours. The red gems on the bottom of the shoe represent the thousands upon thousands of innocent children and civilians whose lives were violently ended. The braids, quills, and cedar represent our resilience and our peace. The Thunderbird represents the power we have as people to protect our kin.

We have the capacity to make change. We refuse to submit silently.