Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth)

In 2018 Oscar Tuazon transported part of his Zome Allow (2016) to Minnesota and began erecting a new Water School on the homestead of Winona LaDuke, a prominent social, political, and environmental activist who heads the Native environmental advocacy organization Honor the Earth. The organization has been deeply involved in protests against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, and was a major presence in 2016 at the confrontation between private and public security officers and protesters that took place near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Tuazon also traveled to Standing Rock at this time to protest, an experience that deeply affected him and continues to inform his present work. The artist will complete construction on LaDuke’s property in 2019. There, the school will support the activities of Honor the Earth and local Indigenous communities.