Native Perspectives
on the Trail
Title: Honoring Her, 2004
Artist: Melanie Yazzie (American)
Medium: Screen Print
Dimensions: 12 x 12 in.
Permanent Collection: Boise Art Museum
Image Courtesy: Boise Art Museum
A Contemporary American Indian Art Portfolio
Boise Art Museum
March 18 - June 4, 2006
In commemoration of the Lewis and Clark bicentennial contemporary native American artists created
fifteen original art prints. The work flaunts convention using humor and other methods to bring the exploration and
adventure themes to life.
Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an epic journey across the
Louisiana Territories in May of 1804. They passed
through eleven states in their quest to discover whether it was possible to reach the Pacific Ocean following the Missouri and Columbia
rivers for a possible trade route. It was President Thomas Jefferson who led the government support for this exploration of the USA. It took them 554 days to reach
the Pacific Ocean. They returned 2 years and 9 months after setting out with news of a successful exploration though the theory of the location
of the trade route was incorrect, a different one was discovered because of the ingenuity of these two men, their team and the many that
helped them along the way.
The artists featured in the exhibit and their tribal affiliations are:
- Neal Ambrose-Smith (Salish)
- Dwight Billedeaux (Blackfeet)
- Melissa Bob (Lummi)
- Damian Charette (Crow/Northern Cheyenne)
- Corwin Clairmont (Salish/Kootenai)
- Jason Clark (Algonquin)
- Joe Fedderson (Colville)
- Jeneese Hilton (Blackfeet)
- Ramon Murillo (Shoshone Bannock)
- Molly Murphy (Oglala Lakota Sioux)
- Neil Parsons (Southern Pikuni)
- Lillian Pitt (Yakama)
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Flathead Salish/ Shoshone/ Cree)
- Gail Tremblay (Onondaga Mi’kmaq)
- Melanie Yazzie (Navajo)
The Missoula Art Museum organized Native Perspectives
The collection of prints were purchased and the exhibition was
organized with a grant from the Idaho Governor’s Lewis and Clark
Trail Committee
Native Perspectives on the Trail
A Contemporary American Indian Art Portfolio
Boise Art Museum :
March 18 - June 4, 2006
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