Exhibition Tour: Know Your Treaty:
Wiwahokichiyapi / They Promised Things to Each Other
Thursday, May 14, 6-6:45 PM | Free

Learn from the curatorial team about the profound impact of treaties on traditional and contemporary Indigenous life, art, creativity, and expression.

Treaties are living documents that continue to serve as legally binding agreements shaping the political relationship between Native Nations and the United States government. These agreements established land boundaries, resource rights, and reservations; they determine Tribal Nation citizenship and outline mutual obligations. The influence of treaties, and the policies surrounding them, has had a profound impact on traditional and contemporary Indigenous life, art, and ways of making and knowing. By pairing treaties with historical and contemporary images as well as art objects, this exhibition explores how treaties continue to impact Native people and reverberate through Native creativity and expression.

Know Your Treaty: Wiwahokichiyapi, They Promised Things to Each Other is created by Plains Art Museum together with Lakota Archaeologist Tyrel Iron Eyes and Giiwedinong Treaty Rights & Culture Museum. This exhibition is developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street and the National Museum of the American Indian.

It is made possible in Fargo with the generous support of the Windrose Fund of Common Counsel Foundation, the Trout Lily Initiative, the Waterers, the Elmer and Kaya Berg Foundation, the Berg Legacy Fund, and the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts. Programming support is provided by Suzanne Senske and Visit Fargo-Moorhead.