Black Wolf's Legacy

  • 13 Jan 2025
  • 21 Feb 2025
  • Lightwell Gallery, OU School of Visual Arts


Show: January 13 – February 21
Reception: January 23 4PM-7PM
Performance of the Potawatomi Women’s drum group at 4:30PM
Artist Talk at 5:30PM

Black Wolf's Legacy is an immersive exhibit by Nicole Emmons is a planned portal through which the contemporary public can deeply consider the experience of Indigenous Americans being forcibly removed from their homelands. Specifically it concerns the Potawatomis of the Great Lakes region, and their removal from northern Indiana to Kansas in a 660 mile walk known as the Trail of Death. Some 30 years later they were further removed to the Shawnee, Oklahoma area, and their descendants are now known as the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. 859 people were forced at gunpoint, including elderly, ill and disabled adults and children to walk for 2 months to make the journey. Many were injured. Around 50 people perished. Some escaped. This project tells the story of one Ogema, or Chief, named Black Wolf, who escaped.

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