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🏳️‍🌈2 Spirit Ojibwe Photographer/Printmaker
8th Generation 2 Spirit Blanket Designing Artist
BFA Studio Arts & Performing Arts Minor - IAIA ‘19 🎨

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✨ QUEERING INDIGENEITY ✨ 10,000 visitors from around the world got to experience this exhibit. Someone emailed me and said that they walked into the gallery and it “felt like entering a weather system”. Native Queer/Two-Spirit 20-somethings participated in loom beading and bookmaking workshops and reported back that they felt “seen and valued”.

If you weren’t able to go to St. Paul to be there or want to touch the magic again, you can join us online at the M’s website.

✨ Scroll down for press coverage, webinars, 3D rendering of the gallery, plus artist headshots – bios – statements, and photos of the artwork.

https://mmaa.org/queering-indigeneity/

Commemorate the year that has passed since QUEERING INDIGENEITY’s community celebration and opening reception. An estimated 500 people joined us on October 11, 2025 at the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul – relatives we hadn’t met yet, singing, laughing, and affirming beautiful futures for all the generations to come.

Much love and appreciation to QUEERING INDIGENEITY’s collaborating artists who are everything and new friends and relatives at the M who doubled down and stand shoulder to shoulder with us.
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@mahingan13 Sharon Day,
@indigenousvengeance Ryan Young,
@deleeuhhh Delia Touché,
@awanigiizhik.art Awanigiizhik Bruce, Niibawi Ajijaak,
@awanaabe_art Awanaabe Syverson,
@zoevallen Zoe Allen,
@lerahephner Naawakamigookwe Lera Hephner,
@noahtoes Noah Polk,
@madpublicfg Madeline Treuer,
@chewiemonster_101 Chewie Mason, Asin-Gwiiwizens,
@savjonsa Sav Jonsa,
@giiwedinindizhinikaaz Giiwedin,
@nickmetcalf23 Nick Metcalf,
@katy_loudhawk Kate Beane,
@laura.w.joseph Laura Joseph,
@blue_collar_curator Ben Gessner, @nicolesirekwatson Nicole Watson,
@annbenrud Ann Benrud, Curtis Bjerke, Jordyn Brennan, Nicole Delfino Jansen, Klark Eversman, Rose Ireland, Adem Ojulu, Diane Richard, @andgemarts Kiaan Van Dusseldorp, Samantha White, @bethany_a_whitehead Bethany Whitehead, and the many volunteers who held our vision with integrity and care. 💖

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😘 love yall

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Listen as @dineaesthetics shares the story behind our beautiful Two Spirit Wool Blanket by Ryan Young (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)

What does the story of the crow mean to you?

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Queering Indigeneity—a landmark exhibition at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (@mnmuseum)—spotlights Two-Spirit, Native queer, and gender-expansive artists from across the Upper Midwest in the so-called “United States.” The exhibition is now open and will be on display through August 16, 2026.

Developed through a multi-year, community-led process, Queering Indigeneity centers intergenerational knowledge, community-based artmaking, and mentorship. It also confronts the ongoing legacy of boarding school–era homophobia and the historical erasure of Two-Spirit relatives from cultural narratives.

Featuring works by artists representing multiple Tribal Nations, the exhibition advances cultural reclamation and underscores the vital role of Two-Spirit knowledge and practice in sustaining thriving Tribal communities.

Photos and clips by Jen Deerinwater (@jendeerinwater).

IMAGE/VIDEO DESCRIPTIONS:
Slide 1: A photo of the exhibit that includes several picture frames. The text reads: “Global Indigenous News | Queering Indigeneity: Reclaiming Two-Spirit Presence in the Upper Midwest” Slide 2: A summary of the exhibition. Slides 3-7: Clips and photos of the exhibit. Slide 8: The text reads: “For more information about the project and artists, visit: https://mmaa.org/queering-indigeneity/“

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We're excited to announce January's History Revealed will be a conversation with the curators of "Queering Indigeneity", on view at the @mnmuseum. Join us January 22nd for this free virtual event to discuss the project, exhibition, and the role Native queer people play in our community.

Please register in advance at the 🔗 in our bio
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#HistoryRevealed #QueeringIndigeneity #TheMMuseum #TheM #MinnesotaMuseumofAmericanArt #NativeArtists #NativeArt #NativeQueerArt #NativeQueer #ContemporaryArt #TraditionalCraft #Storytelling #TwoSpirit #SaintPaul #StPaul #STP #TwinCities #NativeLand #RamseyCounty #RamseyCountyHistoricalSociety #RCHS

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New Article: Queering Indigeneity - Reclaiming history and celebrating presence in the present at the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Get an inside look at the current exhibition at @mnmuseum - on view through Aug 16th 2026.

Read the article by @catiyas: link in bio or on mplsart.com

Artist credits:
* Ryan Young (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) @indigenousvengeance
* Awanigiizhik Bruce (Mikinaak-Wajiw Anishinaabe, Nehiyawe, Michif) @awanigiizhik.art
with Dyana DeCoteau-Dyess (Anishinaabe, Michif, Northern Cheyenne, and Arikara) @birdiedyess
* Madeline Treuer (White Earth Band Ojibwe) @madpublicfg
* Niibawi Ajijaak (Standing Crane)

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What a beautiful weekend river retreat with @devikaranjan and @caitlinnasemacassidy ! The stories were everywhere, in the water, the food, the gallery, the stage, the music, the books, the friendship. Grateful to be in the company of women who pace themselves - slow, slow, quick-quick,slow - to take in the stories the river has to tell.

#mississippiriver

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Two Spirit from the womb to the tomb 🏳️‍🌈🪶

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@indigenousvengeance

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hey Annie, fvck you 😘

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#CulturesGoN 2025
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Art by Little Coyote
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Thanks to all these amazing individuals for helping me make this creation:
@sonwaii
@skyduncansky
@g.rae13
@keyaclairmont
@m_endwarrior
@otoe_mojo
2 loved ones on the dance floor
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(Left)Headshots:
@jermatik
@therealpjvegas
@chizhii
@natalie_benally
@charlitoz1991
@calicolakota
@mlowden_
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(Right)Headshots:
@jacobshije
@1942morningstar
@indigenousvengeance
@taylor_cheii_begay
@ryanbegay505
@xhulise4___
@holatte
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Extras:
@kdotposy @ntvgainz
@reclaim_designz
@northernbear13
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Look in the mirror, and find the solution! 😎🤙🏾 have a safe weekend!!

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QUEERING INDIGENEITY
September 18, 2025–August 16, 2026
Thursdays through Sundays
✨ Community Celebration ◊ October 11, 2025 ✨

Queering Indigeneity is a multi-year, multi-generational project that celebrates the vision and diversity of 2-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest. In seeking out and amplifying voices of Indigenous artists and culture bearers, the M, guided by Penny Kagigebi, hopes to influence the types of artists who are supported, seen, and centered at the museum, and to show both Indigenous and non-Indigenous visitors a more comprehensive and complex story of this region’s art and artists.

Beginning in 2023, the M’s partnership with Kagigebi has emphasized opportunities for intergenerational transfer of knowledge and artmaking, such that community is nurtured among artists, and sustaining mentorships develop. The M’s legacy of community-guided collaboration paved the way for a project like Queering Indigeneity, which responds to Kagigebi’s leadership on radical commitment to Indigenous practices that support artists.

There’s a confluence of beautiful potential when 2-Spirit, Native queer, and gender expansive relatives fully embody their gifts. However, disruption lingers in the form of boarding school-infused homophobia and health disparities in Native communities, and in the past has erased this demographic from traditional practices, ceremonies, and stories. 2-Spirit medicine carries tremendous potential for healthy and vibrant Tribal communities. Queering Indigeneity offers one pathway for 2-Spirit cultural reclamation.

Queering Indigeneity artists include Sharon Day, Ryan Young, Delia Touché, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Niibawi Ajijaak, Awanaabe Syverson, Zoe Allen, Naawakamigookwe Lera Hephner, Noah Polk, Madeline Treuer, Chewie Mason, Asin-Gwiiwizens, Sav Jonsa, Giiwedin, Nick Metcalf, and Penny Kagigebi.

Location: Nancy and John Lindahl Gallery at the M (350 Robert Street North, St. Paul, MN, 55101)

#queeringindigeneity
#mnmuseum

https://mmaa.org/queering-indigeneity/

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