Filmmaker, Sheldon Wolfchild speaks at the Walker Art Center to address Sam Durant's sculpture "Scaffold." The artist, Sam Durant sits listening as Sheldon Wolfchild speaks.
Please attribute to Lorie Shaull if used elsewhere.
The artist, Sam Durant sits listening as Sheldon Wolfchild speaks:
"Our responsibility is to understand the sacredness of what our ancestors left us and so it’s our responsibility as elders to interpret the best we can in a good humble way and speak on behalf of the 38 +2 elders that were hanged..."
"How can a scaffold be erected without responding to our Dakota elders our spiritual leaders and our governance? It goes beyond our comprehension that this could actually happen."
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"Scaffold," a wood & steel sculpture by the artist Sam Durant, was a composite of the representations of 7 historical gallows used in US state-sanctioned executions by hanging between 1859 and 2006. One of them being the gallows constructed in Mankato, Minnesota to simultaneously hang 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862 on orders signed by President Lincoln following the U.S.-Dakota War. The Mankato execution is the largest one-day execution in US history.
Some additional information on the context of historical events surrounding the Mankato hanging:
www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05/30/why-scaffold-struck-so-f...
Filmmaker, Sheldon Wolfchild speaks at the Walker Art Center to address Sam Durant's sculpture "Scaffold." The artist, Sam Durant sits listening as Sheldon Wolfchild speaks.
Please attribute to Lorie Shaull if used elsewhere.
The artist, Sam Durant sits listening as Sheldon Wolfchild speaks:
"Our responsibility is to understand the sacredness of what our ancestors left us and so it’s our responsibility as elders to interpret the best we can in a good humble way and speak on behalf of the 38 +2 elders that were hanged..."
"How can a scaffold be erected without responding to our Dakota elders our spiritual leaders and our governance? It goes beyond our comprehension that this could actually happen."
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"Scaffold," a wood & steel sculpture by the artist Sam Durant, was a composite of the representations of 7 historical gallows used in US state-sanctioned executions by hanging between 1859 and 2006. One of them being the gallows constructed in Mankato, Minnesota to simultaneously hang 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862 on orders signed by President Lincoln following the U.S.-Dakota War. The Mankato execution is the largest one-day execution in US history.
Some additional information on the context of historical events surrounding the Mankato hanging:
www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05/30/why-scaffold-struck-so-f...