Ktchi Okosimaan, 2025
graphite on cut/glued paper, 12 x 20.5 inches (glass: 17 x 22.5 inches)

detail, Ktchi Okosimaan, 2025
graphite on cut/glued paper, 12 x 20.5 inches (glass: 17 x 22.5 inches)

rotting fish woman (fertilizer), 2025

graphite on cut paper, 26 x 12 inches (glass: 30 x 17 inches)

rotting fish woman (fertilizer), 2025

graphite on cut paper, 26 x 12 inches (glass: 30 x 17 inches)

detail, rotting fish woman (fertilizer), 2025

graphite on cut paper, 26 x 12 inches (glass: 30 x 17 inches)

Untitled, 2025

pen on fabric

detail, Untitled, 2025

pen on fabric

detail, Untitled, 2025

pen on fabric

Untitled, 2025
beeswax, wick, bullet casing

detail, Untitled, 2025
beeswax, wick, bullet casing

detail, Untitled, 2025
beeswax, wick, bullet casing

detail, Untitled, 2025
beeswax, wick, bullet casing

detail, Untitled, 2025
beeswax, wick, bullet casing

After Pretty Nose knocked custer off his horse she took his gun and shot manifest destiny in the face, 2021
pen on paper, 8 x 10 inches

Blackhawk/Effigy/Roads, 2025
graphite and pen on paper, in 6 parts

detail, Blackhawk/Effigy/Roads, 2025
graphite and pen on paper, in 6 parts

transcribed text:

"You caught a big red fish. There was that permanent furrow in 

your brow. Papa John gutted it and cut it into chunks and 

we had some in a ziplock in a freezer. A month later you 

died I got it out of there along with the lobster tails 

you pillaged as you would say from Whole Foods and I put it 

in Sal’s freezer. I left the deer hide I was too busy drink-

ing to ever process at Columbus St. I tried harder than 

anything to get you out of there which is silly because 

in retrospect it’s pretty obvious you already did that your 

self. I didn’t try very hard to get me out of there before 

I left New Orleans so I dream about the house all the 

time and my Dad said I’m still a ghost there haunting 

it. Not you though you unfolded into everything are are 

everywhere especially Crepe Myrtle. There was a big 

storm and all the power went out in the 9th Ward so 

the red fish you caught thawed and went sour. The 

deer probably got like that too. Someone probably threw 

it out. And that is when I became sour fish. Rotting 

fish woman, they say there is nothing more horrible 

than that.

So my heart cracked open

& buried itself into the mounds

& from there grows corn, beans, and squash

We are using

The well-fed & rancid

Which kills its own God

As fertilizer

It created sins

To place all-over

We will waste nothing

We will grow from sin

And live and live and live and live"

detail, Blackhawk/Effigy/Roads, 2025
graphite and pen on paper, in 6 parts

transcribed text:

"There is evil magic being done with how they 

use our names and what is done with the things 

attached to them and where the roads go.

That goes with the other stuff they taught 

us, like addiction & exploitation & shames, 

paralysis, forgetting 

the path of a road is very important

The path of a road can make sure the 

life force of a people in a place is circulating 

real good as they go about their days just 

like veins connect the organs

The main road for Wounded Knee used to 

begin at the Sundance Grounds. In a 

continuation of the spirit of interference 

which was the Indian reorganization 

act, that federal plant & Custer descendant 

Dick Wilson was installed as tribal presedent & 

this road was wordlessly re routed to no 

longer be connected to the ceremonial grounds.

This cut off thee veins/path of the place as a 

major organ, and new connections were 

installed on the terms of the enemy, to places 

like IHS Hospital, Commod Office, White Clay, NE, 

the fort, sources of poison and killing, tumors on 

the land

We have paths inside of us that the enemy 

cannot see & will never find 

We have paths inside of us that the enemy 

has dug without us noticing"

detail, Blackhawk/Effigy/Roads, 2025
graphite and pen on paper, in 4 parts

transcribed text:

"Black Hawk was tricked into signing a document 

that reaffirmed the treaty of 1804 which ceded Sauk &

Fox homelands in now Michigan & Illinois to the U. S.

In 1828 the peoples were displaced west of the

Mississippi to Iowa. The people disputed the validity 

of the treaty & Black Hawk led a number of 

attempted homecomings to the eastern side 

of the Mississippi in Illinois between 1830-31 but 

he returned west each time due to feeling he 

was putting his people in too much danger.

Come 1832, Wabokieshiek prophesized that other 

tribes would come to stand beside his peoples 

return, so he led 1500+ of (warriors, old men, 

women, children) to the east. Finding that the 

British hadn’t followed thru 

w/ their claim of support, 

he attempted to again safely 

return his people west, but 

the Illinois militia 

attacked them. This 

Became a war between

The Michigan territory + Illinois militias, 

& Black Hawk’s band fighting to return 

to their homelands, alongside Sauk,

Meskwaki, & Kickapoo allies

The people traveled east along Rock 

River to meet Wabokieshiek. The war 

grew on either side, the Potawatomi 

joined Black Hawk. It was later 

called the last Native American 

War. Militias caught up to them @ Bad Axe & slaughtered hundreds 

of Sauk & Potawatomis so 

everyone was forced 

to surrender.

Black Hawk

and

Wabokieshiek

wanted

To surrender to Indian agent Joseph

Street but were instead taken to Zachary

Taylor so they ran away to hide out on

a secret island in the Mississippi, I’d 

like to go there. But eventually they 

had to surrender to Jefferson

Davis, the future president of the

Confederacy.

Black Hawk, Wabokieshiek, Nea-Pope, & eight other leaders were captured & held at jefferson Barracks. Before they were taken to

Ft. Monroe, Andrew jackson ordered that they be paraded through crowds @ major cities to be made an example of & because

he wanted them to be scared of the “power” of the U.S. and they wanted them to feel humiliated. In cities like Baltimore,

Philly, & N.Y. the crowds amassed to gasp at the spectacle. In cities like Detroit, closer to where the war had taken place,

the crowds amassed to show them burned & hanged effigies of themselves. The tour/spectacle ended w/ Washington

DC, where Jackson and Sec. of war spoke shit 2 them before taking them to prison

It was while they sat in this prison that all those portraits of Black Hawk were drawn & painted

They took his image while he was there. They took his name

They took his name and put it onto their roads

They took his name and put it onto their sports teams, schools, golf courses, banks

They took his name and put it onto their war machines, & used them to kill resistance leaders &

commit genocides & occupations & imperial & colonial horror all over the world

I think of one day when these machines are worn out old husks & the living world overtakes them 

& embraces them to the ground & blooms all over & the people will come & take it apart &

use every last piece for something else & waste nothing"

detail, Blackhawk/Effigy/Roads, 2025
graphite and pen on paper, in 4 parts

detail, Blackhawk/Effigy/Roads, 2025
graphite and pen on paper, in 4 parts