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Eugene Tapahe

Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project

Photographer Eugene Tapahe's goal is to take the healing power of the Ojibwe jingle dress to the land, to travel, to dance and capture a series of images to document the spiritual places our ancestors once walked, and to unite and give hope to the world through art, dance and culture to help us heal.

NPR Here and Now: Art heals: Through The Jingle Dress Project, Navajo artist honors missing and murdered women

Read the article in Hot Mirror: "Eugene Tapahe's photographs from his Art Heals project commanded attention—not merely for their striking colors juxtaposed against nature's beauty, but for the profound story they tell."

Solidarity, Sisterhood, Monument Valley, Arizona, Dine, 2020
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Four Worlds, Teton National Park, Wyoming, the native land of the Shoshone, Bannock, Gros Ventre, and Nez Perce people, 2020
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Remember our Sisters, MMIW, Bonneville Salt Flats, UT, Goshute and Timpanogos, 2020
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Ancestral Strength, Teton National Park, WY, Cayuse, Umatilla, Newe Sogobia and Tséstho’e, 2023
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Strength In Unity, Tetons National Park, the native land of the Shoshone, Bannock, Gros Ventre, and Nez Perce People, 2021
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Tetons National Park, the native land of the Shoshone, Bannock, Gros Ventre, and Nez Perce People, 2021
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Listen to the Trees, 2020 Central Park, New York, The native land of the Mohican, Wappinger, and Munsee Lenape people
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Crossing Generations, MMIW, New York, The native land of the Mohican, Wappinger, Munsee Lenape, and numerous others who no longer exist,, 2021
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Granite and Grace, Yosemite National Park, California, Home of the Nyyhmy (Western Mono/Monache) people, 2020
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We Are Still Here 2, Monument Valley, Arizona, 2020
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We Are Still Here 1, Monument Valley, Arizona, Dine, 2020
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The Beginning, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Goshute and Timpanogos, 2020
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The Gift, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Newe Sogobia, Apsáalooke and Tséstho’e, 2023
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Nizhoni (Beautiful), Monument Valley, Arizona, 2020
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Indian Land, Palm Springs, California, Native land of the Ɂívil̃uwenetem Meytémak people
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Warrior Women, West Coast, Oregon, 2020
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Dignity and Grace, La Push Beach, La Push, Washington,
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Eternal Legacy, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Goshute and Timpanogos, 2023
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Togetherness, Sisters, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Goshute and Timpanogos, 2023
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Spirit of the Land, Resilience, La Push Beach, Washington, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Quileute, 2021
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Spirit of the Land, Resilience, La Push Beach, WA, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla and Quileute, 2021
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Protect The Sacred, Redwood Forest National Park in California, native land of the Yurok, Tolowa, Karok, Chilula, and Wiyot people
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Forever Enshrined, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 2001
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Cultural Juxtaposition, Beverly Hills, California
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Reflections of Our Ancestors, Leech Lake, the native land of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe people, Minnesota, 2020
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The Old Ways, Delina White’s childhood home, Leech Lake, Minnesota, Native land of the Dakȟóta, Lakȟótiyapi and Anishinaabemowin people, 2020
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Jingle Dress Dance, Standing Rock Camp (Highway 1806), ND, Native land of the Dakȟóta and Lakȟótiyapi people, 2016
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The Protector, the frontline on Highway 1806, Standing Rock Camp, North Dakota, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Keeper of the Sacred C’aunupa Bundle. Native land of the Tsėhésenėstsestȯtse, Dakȟóta, and Lakȟótiyapi people, 2016
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Keep Traditions Alive, Saxman Longhouse, Ketchikan, Alaska, Native land of the Lingít Aaní (Tlingit) and Dënéndeh people, 2022
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Never Forget, Standing for Unity, Standing Rock Movement, Oceti Sakowin Camp, North Dakota, 2016
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Ceremonial Medicine, Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Native land of the Dakȟóta and Lakȟótiyapi people, jingle dress ceremonial dance for the families of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and the Minneapolis community, 2026
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Ancestral Strength, Wícah’api Regional Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Native land of the Dakȟóta and Lakȟótiyapi people, 2020
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