Upper Sioux Community

This project will enable Upper Sioux Community's Tribal Historic Preservation Office to increase their capacity to continue preserving and advancing traditional Native arts through their programming focused on supporting artists and intergenerational sharing of artistic skills and knowledge, as well as, increase their organizational sustainability.

Participating in the conference will help increase our programs awarenesses of opportunities and best practices for arts and cultural revitalization and preservation. Our program will be able to utilize this knowledge to enhance our current programing and create new programing.

Our purpose is to increase access, awareness, and appreciation of Dakota arts in our community and increase the intergenerational transfer of Dakota arts by supporting artist gatherings, a communal artist space and nurturing the teaching and sharing of artistic and cultural practices through traditional and contemporary Dakota art forms.