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Sky Hopinka

Dislocation Blues

2017

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Sky Hopinka

Dislocation Blues

2017

Physical Qualities HD video (color, sound), Duration: 16 minutes, 57 seconds
Credit Line Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon
Object Number 2022.70
This film by Sky Hopinka shares reflections from the broad, unified moment of Indigenous resistance commonly referred to as Standing Rock. In 2016 and 2017, the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, home to Lakota and Dakota nations, became a site of protest and opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a crude oil pipeline approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to run through sovereign Indigenous land in North Dakota. Indigenous activists and their allies obstructed construction for 10 months in objection to contamination of the land and water that oil spills would cause. The video alternates between the personal accounts of two water protectors—protest participants—and scenes from the front lines and within the camp. Shaawan Francis Keahna (Ojibwe/Meskwaki) recounts his experiences entering, existing in, and leaving the camp as a two-spirit Native person. Terry Running Wild describes his experience of the camp and his hopes for what this gathering will become. Dislocation Blues reflects on a moment, on togetherness, and on the lasting change brought about by collective action.
he Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2022
Jessica Bell Brown, Cecilia Wichmann, and Leila Grothe, with Antoinette Roberts, Oscar Flores-Montero, Dylan Kaleikaumaka Hill, and Maura Callahan, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," February 26, 2025 to September 3, 2026; work on view from February 26, 2025 to June 27, 2025.

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Sky Hopinka

Ho-Chunk Nation and Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, born Ferndale, WA 1984

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