On view at the Great Plains Art Museum Sept. 5–Dec. 20, 2025
Artist Reception Sept. 19 from 5-7 p.m.
Otoe-Missouria artists, ranging from traditional to contemporary and working in any medium, were selected to co-create an art exhibition reflecting on healing, reconciliation, and reconnecting to the land. Reflections of Our People is a key part of the new Mellon-funded initiative "Walking in the Footsteps of our Ancestors: Re-Indigenizing Southeast Nebraska." The initiative, a partnership between the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma and the Center for Great Plains Studies, aims to promote healing and reconciliation in our region by reconnecting the Otoe-Missouria Tribe to one of their homelands in southeast Nebraska and engaging non-Native people with the history and ongoing presence of the Otoe-Missouria and other Indigenous peoples in our region.
As part of the creative process, selected artists attended Otoe-Missouria Day, which was held on September 21, 2024, in Lincoln, Nebraska, and participated in an artist retreat on September 22, 2024, at Homestead National Historical Park in Beatrice, Nebraska.
This will be the first exhibition to center Otoe-Missouria artists and their creative work. The exhibit will be held at the Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, which sits on Otoe-Missouria homelands, and then travel to Oklahoma. Jessica Moore Harjo, Ph.D. (Otoe-Missouria/Osage/Pawnee/Sac & Fox), is the curatorial director for this exhibition.
More details at: https://plains.unl.edu/great-plains-art-museum/reflections-our-people-our-ways-our-land/