THE CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES NEWSLETTEROF AUGUSTANA COLLEGE VOL. 30, NO. 2 FALL 2010

South Dakota Living Indian New Anthology Defines Treasure Award; all have received recognition by State’s Poetic Arts their peers. Most teach— at State he Center for Western Studies All were born in or University, University of announces the publication of A are current or past South Dakota, University of T Harvest of Words: Contemporary South residents of the Nebraska at Kearney, Briar Dakota Poetry, edited by Augustana Writer- state. All have been Cliff University, or University in-Residence Patrick Hicks. The anthology published in peer- of Virginia—and some are will debut at the South Dakota Festival of reviewed journals or non-affiliated writers. Books, September 25, in Sioux Falls. Plan to by respected literary The book is published attend the special session on Saturday, presses. in honor of Herbert Krause 11a.m.-12:15p.m., in the Orpheum Theatre. These writers (1905-1976), Augustana CWS Executive Director Harry represent the diverse College’s first Writer-in- Thompson sees this book as a fitting cultural landscape of Residence and founder of successor to the award-winning A New South the state itself. For the Center for Western Dakota History. Hicks, who proposed the example, Allison Studies. Publication is idea of an anthology to Thompson and Hedge Coke, made possible through selected the poets, observes, “Over the past Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, generous gifts from several years a number of vibrant poetic Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, and Lydia Dacotah Bank, an anonymous donor, and voices have emerged from South Dakota. Whirlwind Soldier are Native Americans, the National Endowment for the Humanities. While I hesitate to call this a renaissance of while Lee Ann Roripaugh is Asian American. The 250-page book is available from the words, something has definitely been stirring Others are of Irish, English, Scandinavian, or Center for Western Studies, local in the prairie air. Poetry, in fact, has gained German descent. One, David Allan Evans, is bookstores, and Amazon.com for $24.95. prominence across the entire state but these the South Dakota Poet Laureate; another, If purchased through CWS during this new voices have yet to be gathered into a Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, is the recipient introductory period, the price is $20, with single collection. A Harvest of Words intends of the National Humanities Medal and the members receiving a discount. to bring these writers together so that South Dakota poetry can receive the showcase it so rightfully deserves.” good time to review our efforts and Thompson said he is personally CWS Endowment answer some common questions. delighted to publish this collection of To date, we have reached 76% of poetry. As a Fellow in American Studies at Campaign Nears our $1.2 million goal, or $922,719. Baylor University, he wrote his thesis on the Invest in a winner today and help us poetry of Robert Frost, and as a doctoral $1 Million exceed the $1million mark! student at the University of Rochester, he studied with United States Poet Laureate The Center for Western Studies is Q: How is the CWS Endowment Anthony Hecht. “Poetry,” remarks more than three years into its Campaign going? Thompson, “is the purest form of literary Endowment Campaign and it has been A: To date, we have raised more than achievement, and this volume will define the a year and half since we received word $922,000. This does not include any poetic arts in South Dakota for decades.” from the National matching gifts from the National A Harvest of Words celebrates the literary Endowment for the Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) arts as practiced by poets associated with Humanities that Challenge Grant. We are grateful to South Dakota: David Allan Evans, Lee Ann our challenge the many individuals who have given. Roripaugh, Lydia Whirlwind Soldier, Jeanne grant proposal Thank you! However, we still have a lot Emmons, Patrick Hicks, Allison Hedge Coke, had been of money to raise to reach our $1.2 Debra Nystrom, Leo Dangel, Jim Reese, accepted. We million goal and achieve the full match Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Dennis Sampson, thought it was a Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Christine continued on page 2 Stewart-Nuñez, and Linda Hasselstrom. Endowment Campaign continued from page 1 recognized in the Fantle Building. gift, now is the time we can really use your The NEH match is $300,000 over help. Gifts can be paid over the next from the NEH. We look forward to visiting the next few years. three years, but we do need $237,000 in with other loyal supporters who might be cash by next July. Q: Do all of the gifts given so far willing to help us. qualify for the NEH match? Q: Do gifts of stock or land qualify for Q: Remind us, how does the NEH A: No, there are additional unrestricted the match? Challenge Grant work? gifts, mostly as the result of estate gifts, A: Yes, gifts that can be converted into A: New gifts to one of the endowment which have been added to the endowment cash qualify. but do not qualify for the Q: Do planned or estate gifts qualify NEH match. The NEH allowed CWS Gifts & Pledges to Date $ 922,719 for the match? us to raise $300,000 in A: It depends. For example, the gift CWS Goal $ 1,200,000 unrestricted gifts, but we have portion of charitable gift annuities met that amount. NEH 4:1 Match $ 300,000 qualifies. A bequest may also qualify, but Campaign Total $1,500,000 Q: How much has CWS there are requirements. Please visit with received from the NEH so us. far? areas of this effort (Archives & Library, Art Q: How do I find out more about the A: $150,000, or half of the $300,000 Exhibits & Educational Programs, Dakota Endowment Campaign? match, is in our endowment earning Conference, Publications, Fantle Building A: Contact Paul Krueger, Director of interest. Fund) qualify for a 4:1 match. For Development, at 605.274.4912 or example, for every gift of $10,000 CWS Q: What is the next benchmark we [email protected] or Harry receives an additional $2,500. What need to reach for the NEH match? Thompson, CWS Executive Director, current investment gives you that kind of A: We need to raise just more than at 605.274.4007 or return? This investment will strengthen $237,000 in cash gifts before July 31, [email protected]. CWS for years to come. All donors of 2011, to receive our next full disbursement $1,000 or more will be permanently from the NEH. If you are considering a Consider A Charitable Gift Annuity Today CWS BOOK ow many times have you heard the You receive an immediate tax deduction. phrase, “That’s a great idea!” It’s hard You will usually receive some portion of H not to make that claim about Charitable your payment as tax free income throughout Gift Annuities, and for plenty of good reasons: the years of your life expectancy. You can make a gift to the Center for You can avoid some capital gains if you Western Studies and at the same time receive fund the gift annuity with appreciated significant financial and tax advantages. securities. Charitable gift annuities can be simple in Rates based on your age range from 5.2% design, easy to establish, and may be just the for a 60-year-old to 9.5% at age 90 or above. right way for you to designate a future gift for Rates for a two-life Charitable Gift Annuity are the Center. slightly lower because the income is being The lifetime gift annuity payment you paid over two lifetimes. Recently the rates receive is steady, and likely provides a greater were adjusted up, effective July 1, 2010. See rate than your assets are now producing. charts below at left for more examples. By making a gift to the Center A New Gift Annuities Make a Difference For You & Others for Western Studies, you not only South Dakota History receive the benefits described above, you are participating in the 2nd Edition One-Life Gift Annuity Two-Life Gift Annuity future of a vital organization. This Edited by AGES RATE also makes you a member of the Harry F. Thompson 65 5.5% AGES RATE Center’s Heritage Club. $30.00 68 5.7% 65/65-67 5.1% The ultimate satisfaction lies in knowing you have made a 71 5.9% 68/68 5.3% Stop by the contribution to help CWS for CWS Book & Gift Shop 74 6.3% 71/73-75 5.5% many years to come. Please or shop online at 77 6.7% 74/74 5.6% contact Paul Krueger, Director of www.augie.edu/cws 81 7.4 % 77/78-79 6.0% Development, at 605.274.4912 or (member discount applies) [email protected] for a 84 7.9% 80/83-84 6.5% personal illustration or more 87 8.6% 83/83 6.7% information. 90+ 9.5% 87/87 7.5% PAGE 2 • FALL 2010 Annual June Event Honored JoAnne Bird

he CWS hosted its 21st Annual June Harry Thompson, Event on Tuesday, June 15. About CWS Executive T 200 people enjoyed a colorful Director, served as evening of entertainment in the Morrison MC for the evening Commons Ordal Dining Hall on the and introduced Mary Augustana College campus. The event, Bordeaux, curator of Celebrating the Art of JoAnne Bird, featured the Heritage Center music, singing, dancing, and more. Thank at in Pine you to all of the generous donors and Ridge, who gave a sponsors for your contributions to the talk on contemporary CWS June Event. A list of the June Event Native American art. donors is on page 14 of this newsletter. The event was a Thanks also to the Bird family and all the family affair for the fantastic speakers, musicians, and dancers. Birds; even JoAnne’s It was a wonderful evening. An exhibition daughter Jackie of JoAnne Bird’s is on display in entertained the Board President Lynn Aspaas reads the Western American Award the Madsen/Nelson/Elmen Galleries of audience with a hoop citation while CWS Executive Director Harry Thompson presents JoAnne Bird with the medallion. the CWS Fantle Building. See page 10 of dance. The highlight this newsletter for more information. of the evening was The evening began with the Bird the presentation of the Western America Family Band providing music for the Award to JoAnne by CWS Board President reception. Gordon Bird, JoAnne’s Lynn Aspaas. The full citation for JoAnne Award Recipients husband, was the band leader. Guests Bird, read at the June Event, is as follows: were then treated to a gourmet meal of Collaborating on turkey mignon followed by wojapi, a The Western America Award Presented traditional Lakota dessert. After the meal, to JoAnne Bird, June 15, 2010 Research to the Little Bird Band entertained the Born in Oakland, California, JoAnne audience with more musical numbers. Dr. Bird was raised in northeastern South Benefit Students Dakota by her grandmother, whom she credits for playing a Dr. Ann Pederson and Dr. Harry major role in her creative Thompson are recipients of the education, from infancy to young Carole Bland Cultivating Faculty adulthood. JoAnne is Santee Excellence Award for 2010-2011. Sioux and an enrolled member of Dr. Pederson teaches in the the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. Religion/Philosophy/Classics JoAnne Bird knew from early Department, and Dr. Thompson is childhood her destiny was to be the Executive Director of the an artist. After graduating from Center for Western Studies. high school in Flandreau, South The late Dr. Carole Bland Dakota, she received art training graduated cum laude from at Dakota State University in Augustana in 1968. She received Madison, South Dakota; the Alumni Achievement Award in Macalester College in St. Paul, 1997 and served on the Augustana Minnesota; and the Institute of Board of Trustees. At the time of American Indian Arts at Santa Fe, her death she was a professor and New Mexico. After working for Director of Research in the the 3M Company, she decided to Department of Family Practice and leave the commercial art field to Community Health at the devote her life full-time to a University of Minnesota’s Medical professional art career. School. JoAnne has won numerous The award for $5,000 is awards and honors for her work, designed to fund research for and in 1992 was inducted into creative work focusing on the South Dakota Hall of Fame as cultivating excellence in teaching. A Artist of the Year. In May of this portion of the award will be used to year, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in humanities continued on page 4 and the arts by South Dakota State University. Jerry Jorgensen, Jackie Bird, JoAnne’s daughter and nationally renowned dancer, performs a hoop dance at the June Event. continued on page 4 FALL 2010 • PAGE 3 Annual June Event Honored JoAnne Bird continued from page 3 Award Recipients Collaborating continued from page 3 Dean of the College of Arts purchase books for the CWS and Sciences, library. Drs. Pederson and remarked, Thompson are collaborating on a “JoAnne has project entitled Geography of God’s been an Incarnation: Narratives and ambassador for Landscapes of Faith. the state of The recipients described the South Dakota, project in a joint statement. “This not only project explores ways that through sharing geography/place can be used by her , students in Religion 110 a s a work metaphor for interpreting Christian and techniques theologies. To accomplish this task, with students at The Bird Family Band entertains the crowd at the June Event. JoAnne, in the SDSU, but also white jacket, sings while her husband Gordon, far right, plays guitar and we will utilize the resources at the sings. Joining them are their children and grandchildren. Center for Western Studies for for infusing student research. This research cultural history about the spirituality of place also and traditions into her artwork.” THE WESTERN AMERICA AWARD relates to and is significant for an Dr. JoAnne Bird has exhibited at the The Western America Award is given for Interim course to be offered by Dr. CWS Artists of the Plains Show & Sale for achievement in any and all fields of Thompson in January 2011entitled many years, and today many of her pieces endeavor that relate to the preservation Finding the Great Plains. While the are found in private and corporate and interpretation of the history and courses are taught separately, many collections and museums throughout the cultures of South Dakota, the Northern of the research questions and world. The Western America Award is Plains, and the American West. The award pedagogical strategies overlap in given for achievement in any and all fields is a medallion of bronze, designed by the significant ways. This grant will of endeavor that relate to the preservation late Ogden Dalrymple, himself a prize- bring new resources and and interpretation of the history and winning medalist and sculptor. collaborations to teaching courses cultures of South Dakota, the Northern The following are past recipients of the about the places from which Plains, and the American West. In Western America Award: students come and in which recognition of Dr. Bird’s achievements in Augustana College is located.” the arts and her celebration and 2005 - Joel Strasser 1990 - Linda Hasselstrom interpretation of the cultural heritage of 2003 - John Day 1990 - Sven G. Froiland 2000 - Anson Yeager Sr. 1988 - Arthur R. Huseboe her people, the Board of Directors of the 1999 - Ronald Robinson 1984 - John R. Milton Center for Western Studies is pleased to 1997- Bernie Hunhoff 1984 - Herbert T. Hoover present The Western America Award to 1996 - Ruth Ziolkowski 1984 - Frederick Manfred 1993 - Thomas Kilian 1977- Robert Karolevitz JoAnne Bird. 1992 - Roger Preuss 1976- Herbert S. Schell CWS BOOK 1992 - Frederick Manfred 1991- Harold Torness

Don’t miss the Session on the new CWS book A Harvest of Words with editor Patrick Hicks Birding in the Northern Plains Sioux Falls By Herbert Krause Orpheum Theater Edited by Ronald R. Nelson 11:00 a.m. $25.00 Saturday, Sept. 25 Stop by the CWS Gift & Book Shop or shop online at www.augie.edu/cws (member discount applies)

PAGE 4 • FALL 2010 42nd Dakota Conference Welcomes 220 Dakota Conference he 42nd Dakota Conference, will be observing two sesquicentennials: “Western Highways: Journeys the Civil War and its impact on the Award Winners T through Space and Time,” Northern Plains, and Augustana’s encouraged the examination of the impact Norwegian tradition. on indigenous and immigrant populations Theme for 43rd Annual Dakota of paths, trails, roads, and highways that Conference: The Civil War and the crisscross the northern Great Plains. Northern Plains. Submission Many papers also considered requirements: Send a one-page paper or metaphorical journeys. More than 220 session proposal with title, brief attendees traveled from as many as 12 description, and biographical sketch, along states and were treated to presentations with presenter name, address, phone by students and scholars, readings by number, and email address, to Tim writers, a panel discussion on a new Hoheisel, Director of Outreach and history of Dakota Territory, and music by Communication, the Center for Western guitarist and vocalist Jami Lynn. Many Studies, Augustana College, 2001 S. Winners of cash awards for papers at the thought it was the best conference yet. Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57197, Conference, left to right: Jon K. Lauck, Barbara Aspaas, Clarissa Thompson, and The following gallery of images [email protected]. Proposals are due John Timm. Not pictured are William captures some of the highlights. Mark on or before February 4, 2011. Both Ellingson and David Martinez. your calendars for the 43rd Dakota academic and non-academic presenters Conference, April 29-30, 2011, when we are welcome. Jon K. Lauck, Sioux Falls, SD “The Influence of Lincoln’s Midwest on South Dakota” Photo Gallery from the Dakota Conference $100 - Ernest M. Teagarden Award Barbara Aspaas, Sioux Falls, SD CWS Board Chair Lynn Aspaas “My Illinois Grandmother Speaks” presented to Dr. John E. Miller the $100 - Carol Martin Mashek Award Award for Distinguished in Women’s History Contribution to the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of South William J. Ellingson, Flandreau, SD Dakota and the Northern Plains. “Lincoln’s Influence on the Settlement John was recognized for his many of Bend in the River (Wakpaipaksan)” papers at the Dakota Conference $100 - Richard Cropp Award and his career as a historian and author. Clarissa Thompson, Sioux Falls, SD “Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet (1860-1864)” Jon K. Lauck’s new book, Prairie $150 - Cedric Cummins Award Republic: The Political Culture of John Timm, Sioux Falls, SD Dakota Territory, 1879-1889, was the “Arthur and Margaret Mellette subject of a panel presentation Experience Lincoln’s Death” featuring (l. to r.) Dr. John Miller, $150 - Arthur I. and Willmeta SDSU; Dr. David Wolff, BHSU; Dr. Jon Johnson Award Lauck; Dr. Gary Olson, Augustana; Dr. Michael Mullin, Augustana; and David Martinez, Rapid City, SD Dr. Tom Kilian. CWS Executive “Remembering the Thirty-Eight: Director Dr. Harry Thompson (m.) Abraham Lincoln and the served as moderator. ‘War on Barbarism’” $150 - Herbert W. Blakely Award Keynote speakers Dr. Dan Krier, Iowa State University, and Dr. William Swart, Augustana College, presented their research on the concept of the integrated spectacle as applied to the Sturgis motorcycle rally at the Saturday luncheon.

continued on page 6 FALL 2010 • PAGE 5 Dakota Conference Photo Gallery continued from page 5 Legacy of Lakota Bob Puschendorf, Nebraska State Historical Society Associate Director, Dewey Beard was the featured speaker at the opening session of the conference. Presented to CWS Using slides, he traced the development of the Meridian On behalf of Bert Tollefson, Highway. Jeanne Kinney-Tollefson presented a pair of chaps owned by the last known survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Iron Tail (Wasee Maza, Dewey Beard) to the Center Augustana students presenting papers at the Dakota Conference

for Western Studies at the Friday conference luncheon. Bert, who passed away at age 80 on January CWS Mildred White Intern Kadyn Wittman CWS Collections Assistant Amanda Jenson 19, 2010, had been the State presented a paper explaining the provided an account of the work of the Director for the National processing of manuscripts and Riggs family among the Santee. Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, institutional records. top aide to Governor Sig Anderson, and CEO of the South Dakota Three of Executive Director Thompson’s students Highway Commission. from the course Unlocking the Archives: The Search Dewey Beard, a Minneconjou for Authenticity presented original research at the Lakota, followed into Dakota Conference. Kate Schleusener, left, exile in Canada after the battle and discussed a letter dated 1873 between the then back to South Dakota where Reverend Henry Swift and Episcopal Bishop he lived on the Cheyenne River William Hare. Zachary Ludens, below left, Indian Reservation. He and his presented on his research about the Acting family were present at the Commissioner of the Office of Indian Affairs in in 1890, 1878. Adam Bockelman, below right, spoke about where he was shot and some of his his work to determine the identity of the author of family, including his wife and child, an eye-witness account of the San Francisco were killed. He was a member of earthquake of 1906. ’s Wild West Show for 15 continued on page 7 years and was one of three men who modeled for the Indian Head nickel first issued in 1913. Having been removed from his land on the Pine Ridge Reservation during the Second World War, Dewey Beard relocated to Rapid City, where he died in 1955 at age 96.

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Augustana faculty and other scholars presenting papers at the Dakota Conference CWS Features

Among the Augustana faculty members President of Sinte presenting at the Dakota Conference were Dr. Mary Isaacson (Nursing), at Gleska University left, who spoke about her research on Lakota adolescence. Dr. Margaret In cooperation with the Preston (History), below, presented on Augustana Academy for Seniors, Irish missionary Mother Raphael CWS hosted a reception for the McCarthy. President of , Lionel Bordeaux, on April 20. Bordeaux was the featured speaker for the last installment of the

Dr. L. Adrien Hannus (Anthropology), below, screened a new video he developed to be used at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village. CWS Director or Outreach and Communication Tim Hoheisel (not pictured) presented a paper entitled Wounded Knee II: A Journey through Academy’s Series Cultures in Turmoil: the Historiography. Bridging the Gap in South Dakota. Loren Amundson, Bordeaux has served the people at right, who of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation volunteers in archives at CWS, presented two in South Dakota and Native papers at the conference. Here he is speaking Americans throughout the nation about stonecutter John Elm as part of the as president of Sinte Gleska since Minnehaha County Historical Marker Dedication. 1973. It is the first fully accredited He spoke about the Huntimer family at the reservation-based institution of second marker dedication by the Society. higher education at the bachelor’s level. He was granted the Doctor of Humane Letters degree by Augustana College in 1989. He has served on the National contributed significantly in the study of Advisory Council on Indian Et Cetera… geriatric and psychiatric nursing through her Education, a U.S. presidential research, publishing, and innovative teaching. Dr. Joyce Nelson, professor emeritus of appointment; as co-chair of the White House Conference on Indian nursing, was among prominent graduates of Congratulations to CWS Board member Education; as president of the five area Lutheran Colleges to be recognized Dave Johnson on the publication of his National Indian Education with the Going Viking Award by Minneapolis- article in South Dakota History (Spring Association; as president of the based Norway 2010): “Flapping Coattails and Feuding American Indian Higher Education House as part Republicans: Theodore Roosevelt and the Consortium; as board member for of its annual South Dakota Election of 1908.” Midtsommer the Native American Rights Fund; as a member of the National Celebration on The Augustana Honors Program, Civitas, Congress of American Indians; and Wednesday, held a reception for graduates in the as a Rosebud Sioux tribal June 23. Dr. Madsen/Nelson/Elmen Galleries in May. councilman. In 1988, he received Nelson was The office of the Civitas Director, Dr. Jeffrey the prestigious National Indian recognized as Miller, Chair of the Department of English Education Association Educator of a national & Journalism, is housed in the Fantle the Year Award. leader in Building. Civitas classes (four in fall semester nursing education. She has continued on page 8 FALL 2010 • PAGE 7 Et Cetera continued from page 7 of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 is, according to Travis Kavulla in the National Review From the CWS 2010) and Civitas Committee meetings and (August 2, 2010), “one of those rare student gatherings are held in the Van scholarly works that are neither a Executive Director Demark Board/Classroom. denunciation nor a ‘critical’ (which is to say Marxist or postmodernist) interpretation of Since my appointment by Lois Boyce, Trudy Peckham, and other American culture.” It is a passionate story President Rob Oliver in December, I members of the Alta Petens Study Club about little Dakota’s seminal decade, of have visited with directors of other which we as a nation can be proud. Copies research centers with an interest in of this important study may be purchased in the American West to explore the Center for Western Studies gift shop or options for cooperative online at www.augie.edu. programming. In April I met with Jim Stubbendieck at the Center for The Augustana Library Associates’ Books Great Plains Studies. The Center is & More Sale was held in the Fantle Building an interdisciplinary, intercollegiate, regional research and teaching program chartered in 1976 by the heard a presentation on May 21 by artist University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Its Marian Henjum, whose paintings were on mission is to foster the study of display in the Madsen/Nelson/Elmen people and the environment in the Galleries. Outreach and Communication sparsely populated Great Plains. At Director Tim Hoheisel also spoke about the entrance of the Center, shown CWS programs. below, is a large bronze installation by George Lundeen (2004), On the Former CWS Trail of Discovery: Commemorating intern Kelly on April 29-30. CWS also sold books at the Journey of Lewis and Clark, 1804- Goertzen stands that time. next to an exhibit she created based CWS Outreach and Communication Director on her work with Tim Hoheisel and Collections Assistant the Lillie Hays Amanda Jenson provided archival letters. A USD consulting advice to attendees of the 2010 graduate student Association of South Dakota Museums now, Kelly Annual Meeting in Aberdeen on April 17. returned to CWS in June to continue Albert Her Many Horses, a senior music her work on the Hays letters with Dr. Harry education major at Augustana, read Thompson.

Rachel Carsrud, Richard Solberg Intern during the summer and Julius and Dorothy 1806, commissioned by the Friends Jacobsen Intern during the academic year, of the Center for Great Plains prepared an exhibit of materials Studies. In July I contacted Scott Stevens at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies and visited John Aubrey, selections from the poetry of Virginia Driving Curator of the Ayer Collection of Hawk Sneve as part of the college’s chapel Americana and American Indians, at service, held in the Fantle Building on March the Newberry Library. Founded in 29, celebrating the season of renewal. Chicago in 1887, the Newberry Arranged in cooperation with Interim Library is one of the world’s great Chaplain Dr. Ann Pederson, the service was a research and learning institutions component of the CWS Native American and home to more than 1.5 million documenting the life of Dr. John R. Milton, Initiative 2009-10. books, 5 million manuscript pages, founding editor of South Dakota Review, a and 500,000 historic maps. leading literary journal based at the CWS recently provided the Sioux Falls University of South Dakota. The Milton School District with a complimentary copy continued on page 9 papers reside in the CWS archives. of the second edition of A New South Dakota History as a resource for its new Debuted at the Dakota Conference, Jon K. initiative to incorporate Native American Lauck’s Prairie Republic: The Political Culture PAGE 8 • FALL 2010 continued on page 9 Et Cetera continued from page 8 possible programming opportunities. kindly arranged for the meeting while Mr. He (below middle) is seen here viewing the Gandrud was in Sioux Falls to speak to the culture into the elementary curriculum. Nordmanns-Forbundet. Three of the book contributors are nationally recognized Native American Former executive director Dr. Arthur R. authors. It has been the hope of those who Huseboe passed away in March but he is funded this publication, both the first and still giving to the CWS. On April 12, Art’s second editions, that the book would play a brother Ken brought to the Center a role in furthering the education of young painting that Art had bequeathed to the people about their state. The new initiative, Center in his will. The painting is an original designed to forge stronger ties between the Oscar Howe, casein on illustration board, schools and Native American communities, Fantle Scandinavian Exhibit with (left to arises from the Office of Indian Education, right) Donn Grinager, Director of the Gail Swenson, Supervisor. International Programs Office for Augustana, Mrs. Gandrud, Dr. Thompson, and Dr. The Norwegian Honorary Consul General in Tore Detlie. Dr. Michael Nitz, Associate Minneapolis, Gary Gandrud, met in April Professor of Communication & Coordinator with Executive Director Thompson regarding of Norwegian Programs at Augustana, had

Executive Director continued Roger Haugo recently sent me a from page 8 clipping entitled “Recovery’s Seven entitled Wind Dance. Pictured, left to right, Secrets,” by Forbes publisher Rich CWS Executive Director Dr. Harry The Newberry’s four research centers Karlgaard. Roger had drawn the Thompson, CWS Outreach and focus scholarly attention on, and seventh principle that would hasten Communication Director Tim Hoheisel, Art’s engage in, research economic recovery brother Ken Huseboe and Ken’s wife Kathy arising from its –purpose– to my Huseboe. collections on the particular attention. Americas and Western In that paragraph, Painter and CWS Artists of the Plains Art Europe. The main Karlgaard refers to Show award winner Nancyjane Huehl entrance to the library, famous management currently has an exhibition at Home Federal seen at right, is a theorist Peter Bank in downtown Sioux Falls. On display modified Richardson Drucker and his are three paintings owned by CWS, shown Romanesque architecture focus on nonprofits below, clockwise from the top: Greenhouses of of Henry Ives Cobb. late in his career. the Midwest, Badlands Blues, and Of Solitude Over the next two Drucker found that Light. Pictured with Nancyjane is Chairman years, Augustana is purpose was the key scheduled to undergo a to business success comprehensive among nonprofits. evaluation for The Forbes publisher continued accreditation writes that Drucker by the Higher Learning felt that hospitals, Commission of the North Central museums, and churches are “as critical Association. Since December I have to a society’s success as good been serving on the Self-study government, entrepreneurs and Steering Committee, chaired by Dean thriving corporations.” of the College Mark Braun, and Karlgaard also quotes entrepreneur and CEO of Home Federal Bank and beginning this fall will co-chair the and author Simon Sinek, who writes, supporter of the arts Curt Hage. Home Preparing for the Future Sub- “customers ‘don’t buy what you do. Federal is an annual sponsor of the CWS committee. The function of this sub- They buy why you do it.’” The Artists of the Plains Art Show & Sale. committee is to identify the college’s purpose of the Center for Western “allocation of resources and its Studies is to celebrate and honor the The art of Joshua Spies, CWS Artists of the processes for evaluation and planning.” HERITAGE of the indigenous and Plains Art Show award recipient and winner To be part of the college’s planning for immigrant peoples of the northern of the 76th Annual Federal Duck Stamp the future is a rare opportunity for the Great Plains. Through our notable Competition, is the focus of a new gallery. Center for Western Studies and an preservation and interpretive The Joshua Spies Fine Art Gallery is now indication of the developing programs–all educational in design–we open at the Goss Opera House in downtown partnership between Augustana and put into practice what we believe. Watertown, SD. Spies’ artwork will be on CWS. Thank you for sharing this vision. display permanently and admission to the Banker and CWS Board member –Harry F. Thompson gallery is free.

FALL 2010 • PAGE 9 In the CWS Madsen/Nelson/Elmen Galleries

SHOW CLOSES SEPTEMBER 25 OCTOBER 7-NOVEMBER 6 JoAnne Bird: A Retrospective Exhibition Augustana Art: Then and Now Augustana Alumni Invitational Exhibition The JoAnne Bird retrospective continues through September. Paintings on display from the 1960s through 2010 show Bird’s In celebration of Augustana evolving technique and style. JoAnne’s paintings depict her Native College’s 150th anniversary, the American heritage, portraying the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, in rich traditional way of life in a conjunction with the galleries of contemporary style. Much of her the Center for Western Studies at work is spiritual in nature and Augustana College, will be hosting timeless. Her work often employs a major alumni invitational. rich, bold colors in a fluid motion There will be joint receptions presenting images of warriors and at the Eide/Darlymple Gallery and horses that seem to be Center for Western Studies approaching the viewer straight galleries on Thursday, October 7, off the canvas. Her preferred from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Curators’ medium is acrylic, but she has welcome and talks will be held worked in several media. Her technique and mastery of handling a at 5:30 p.m. at the paint brush with precision are unique— Eide/Dalrymple Gallery. Augustana Art Department, 1975 a combination of controlled paint throwing and palette knife. Some see her style as evolving from realism to NOVEMBER 11, 2010-FEBRUARY 26, 2011 mystical impressionism. 40 Years of Collecting: Paintings on display are on loan from the collections of Art from the CWS F. Edward Clinton, Mary B. Myklebust, Kim Johnke, and Jerry & Gail Permanent Collection Simmons. Prairie Star Gallery in downtown Sioux Falls is the exhibition sponsor. As part of its mission of collecting and preserving the diverse cultures of the Northern Plains, the Center collects artifacts and works of art. The permanent art collection Norman Rockwell, “The President’s Wife” includes paintings and by such renowned artists as Come and Celebrate With Us Today! Norman Rockwell, Oscar Howe, Arthur Amiotte, Harvey Dunn, Belva Curtis, Dan Deuter, Harvey Rattey, Gisele Robinson, Jim Savage, Nancyjane Huehl, Thomas Mails, 31st Annual and Gutzon Borglum. These works are Artists of the Plains occasionally exhibited throughout the Fantle Building. A complete exhibition of Art Show & Sale the highlights of the Center’s art collection, however, has never before been displayed. February 18-20, 2011 To commemorate the 40th Anniversary Holiday Inn City Centre of CWS, from November through February, the Center will display art that it has Oscar Howe, Downtown Sioux Falls collected since 1970. In “Origin of the Sioux” addition to the artists listed above, there will be CWS GIFT & BOOK SHOP many more paintings and sculptures on display in the Stop by or shop online for a large selection of CWS and Madsen/Nelson/Elmen Regional Books, Native American Crafts & Jewelry Galleries. This is a rare We also have used books! opportunity to see the Store Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8am-5pm and Sat. 10am-2pm highlights of the Center’s www.augie.edu/cws/giftshop art collection. Don’t miss this exhibition!

Gutzon Borglum, “California Moonlight” PAGE 10 • FALL 2010 Ranger $750 - $999 Jeffrey & Mary Jo Murray CWS Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota Paula Nelson Boyd & Dody Hopkins Larry & Diane Ness 30th Annual Artists MEMBERSHIP Blair & Linda Tremere Margaret Novak of the Plains Art We are grateful for the hundreds Robert & Kristine O'Connell Show & Sale Donors Scout $500 - $749 Frank & Karen Olson of individuals, organizations, Lynn & Barbara Aspaas Joyce Olson Major Sponsors and businesses who supported Ron & Becky Brakke Michael & Deborah Olson Results Radio/Cumulus Media the Center in 2009-2010. The Cara Lee Davis Rodney & Ruth Parry Business Sponsors following report includes all gifts Tony & Anne Haga Scott & Patty Peters First Premier Bank/Premier from August 1, 2009 through Roger Haugo Craig & Karen Pfeifer Bankcard July 31, 2010. 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Bruce & Dorothea Chamberlin Wayne Fanebust Jerry & Gail Simmons David Kvernes Gerald# & Anne Christopherson Mark & Mary Kay Fausch Robert & Sharon Steensma Allen & Brenda Lewis Charles Clay Joseph & Elaine Floyd Blair & Linda Tremere Michael & Elizabeth MacDonald Curtis & Joan Cleven Darold & Margaret Fredricks Richard & Michelle Pamela Madsen Walter Conahan *matching gift, #deceased Van Demark Mary McQuillen Paul & Mary Ellen Connelly continued on page 12 Jamie & Penny Volin Robert & Glennys Meerdink Robin Coon & Carol Groetken Tom & Marilyn Meyer Judy Coreson FALL 2010 • PAGE 11 Jerome & Mary Freeman Leland & Marilyn Hult Mary Froiland Bernie Hunhoff CWS Heritage Club Milton & Marjorie Hanson Tom & Amy Froiland H. L. Hutcheson & Maureen Diggins Wiliam D. Harvey Lawrence & Suzanne Fuller Hutcheson We are grateful to the members Jeffrey W. Hayzlett Greg & Corrine Ganske Lowell & Norma Hyland of the Center for Western Howard & Eunice Hovland Scott Gibson Ralph & Ginny Iverson Studies Heritage Club. Arthur R. Huseboe# Florence Goertz Glen & Barbara Jamtgaard Members have indicated that Harriet Hybertson Russell & Carol Greenfield Richard & Mary Jo Jaqua they have included the Center in Lois Boe Hyslop# Elizabeth Gutch Charles & Annette Jarratt their estate plans. If your name Gil & Lillian Johnsson Richard & Edna Haase Roy & Redetta Jensen is not on the list and you have Ethel Koller# Doug & Anne Hajek Michael & Kelly Jerstad included CWS in your estate Dennis & Sandra Krause Wesley & Beverly Halbritter Clayton Johnson plans or if you are interested in Jim & Roselyn Krause Bruce & Nancy Halverson David Johnson & Janet Hovey joining, please contact Paul Robert & Gerry Law Dennis Hampton Johnson Krueger, Director of Development, Leland & Ardis Lillehaug Dale & Linda Hart Judith Johnson at 605.274.4912 or e-mail William Beach Locke# Steve & Susan Hauff John Jones [email protected]. New Janet Lyso Paul Hauffe Randall Jorgensen members are inducted at the Shirley# & Lyndon# King Jeff & Sheila Hazard Glenn & Phyllis Jorgenson Christmas Luncheon each Morris & Edith Magnuson Mim Hazard Claudia Kapp December. Fred & Carol Matthies Brad & Melinda Heegel Frances Kilen Les & Bev Miller Peter & Marilyn Hegg Tom & Lorna Kilian Loren and Mavis Amundson Richard Muller Richard & Marlys Henderson Roy & Helen Kintner Anonymous Ruth Muller# Edward Hogan Mel & Carol Klein* Lynn & Barbara Aspaas Rex Myers & Susan Richards William Hogan David & Deanna Knudson Charles Balcer# Ronald R. Nelson Tim Hoheisel John & Marjorie Knudson Marilyn Bates V.R. & Joyce Nelson Tim & Pamela Homan Wayne & Esther Knutson Les & Mary# Baylor Hazel Lovald Nervig# Herb & Carol Hoover Gilmore & Dorothy Koepsell Esther A. Bowden Lynwood Oyos Paul Horsted Bob & Jane Kolbe Gerald# & Anne Christopherson LaMoyne & Karyn Pederson Dennis & Sandra Krause Nancy Craig Merle Pflueger# William Krause Jim & Judy Dedrickson Harry Reiner Donors of Delmar & Marlys Kroon Virginia Dettman# Rollyn Samp Manuscripts, Books, Paul & Joni Krueger Bob# & Lil Evenson Dean & Sharon Schueler David & Arlene Kuehl Sally Fantle# A. Kent Scribner Art, and Artifacts Wayne Kvam & Madhu Mitra Sven# & Marion Froiland Paul# & Dorothy Swanberg Gerald & Alice Lange Loren Amundson Arie Gaalswyk# Lloyd & Anne Svendsbye Linda Larson L.M. Baylor Frank & Jan Gibbs Harry & Ronelle Thompson Lowell Larson Bruce Blake Carol Rae Hansen Harold# & Mary Torness Jon Lauck & Amy Ross Elizabeth Campbell Mary Lerdal & Patrick Badiuk Richmond Clow Steven & Patricia Lindquist Lee & Merna Pirlet South Dakota Synod ELCA Mrs. Charles Cook William & Lorrae Lindquist* Russell & Irma Pohl Kenneth & Lois Stangeland James Cronin Sandra Looney M. 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Adrien Hannus Rachel Carsrud (center) receive their award letters from Marilyn Bates Richard Hanson Ken & Jean Bauge Willis & Phyllis Hanson Executive Director Harry Thompson. Both are recipients Ron & Janell Beck Daniel Heinemann of the Doris Eggers Huseboe Scholarship, established by Bob & Liz Bennett Inman & Lois Hesla Arthur R. Huseboe at the Sioux Falls Area Community Celia Benson Maxine Hildebrandt Foundation. Rachel is also the recipient of the Richard W. Lyle & Jeanne Benson Verna Hill Solberg Endowed Internship, established by Gordon and Robert & Donna Benson Kevin & Jan Hoheisel Trudy Iseminger at Augustana College. These Robert & Clarice Binger Patrick and Sara Hoheisel Bruce & Rita Blake Rueben & Madeline Hoheisel scholarships provide important funding for student Gil & Janice Blankespoor Mary Ann Hohman engagement at the Center. Lois Boyce Mark Hollabaugh Bruce & Mary Boyd Torild Homstad Loren & Sheila Boyens* Richard Hopewell Ann Loken Sharon Neish Brenda Boyer Burton & Gladys Horsted Charles Lopas Diedrik & Doris Nelson Roger & Karen Braaten* Tom & Gloria Houle Faith Louis Julie Nelson David & Cathy Brechtelsbauer Wayne & Sonja Hughes Jack & Virginia Lovett Theron & Connie Nelson Dale & Phyllis Breuer Dale Hugunin Edward Lueck Wesley & Gail Nelson Miles & Marilyn Browne Harriet Hybertson Richard & Sharon Lunder Tom Neuberger Lester# & Alice Brue Jerald & Joan Jencks Hazel Lyon Terry & Linda Nielsen Gerald & Pat Bruget John & Pam Jewett Janet Lyso Norma Nowotny Denis & Diane Bruggeman Ralph & LaVonne Johnshoy Morris# & Edith Magnuson David & Jeanne Ode Richard Buckstead Glenn Johnson Charles Mandsager Dorcas Ode Jean Bunday Jeffrey Johnson Edward & Eunice Mansfield Sharon Olbertson Eleanor Burkman Vernell & Louise Johnson Carol Mashek James & Beverly Oliver Kate Campbell Gary & Stephanie Joyce Frederick & Carol Matthies Greg & Susan Olsen Mary Child Alvin & Mary Kangas Robert & Delpha Mattison Curtis & Pat Olson Paul & Judy Child Kay Kelsey Ingolf & Marilyn Maurstad James Olson Keith Christensen & Dawn Deines David Kemp Nancy McCahren John Osman Christensen Ken & Lila Kessinger Thelma McElhaney Frank & Dee Owens Delores Cleveland Laura Keppen Eugene & Susan McGowan Shirley Parks Kay Rich Coddington James Ketcham & Jan Curtis Patrick & Kathleen McGreevy Bill Pattison Maurice & Cora Conner John & Enid Kinkead Marilyn McGriff Richard & Hazel Pearson Gary & Kathy Conradi John & Marcia Kittelson Charles McIntosh Howard & Trudy Peckham Shon Cronk Deb Klebanoff James McIntosh Gary & Ann Pederson Marjorie Dannenbring Gail Klein Ronald McIntosh A. Richard & Beverly Petersen Sadie Dardis-Knudtson Karl Koball Joan McMillin Barbara Peterson Jeffrey Decker John & Cheryl Koch Mark & Judith Meierhenry Glen & Irene Peterson Charles Draper Dennis & Jo Ellen Koerner Janice Mikesell Randolph & Dorothy Peterson Russ Duerksen Berneda Koller Herbert & Dorothy Mikkelson Truman & Nancy Phelan Norman & Muriel# Ekeland Karen Kraus Les & Beverly Miller Shawn & Laura Plowman William Ellingson James Krier Winifred Miller William & Priscilla Pochardt Jean Ellwein Gail Kristensen Minnehaha Mandskor Harry & Pauline Poletes Eloise Elmen Harold & Phylis Krueger Hazel Moe# Margaret Preston & Rick Lundberg Bob & Rita Elmen William & Alice Kruse Mary Montoya Jean Elliott Rahja Eleanor Emmel Kenneth Kvammen Patrick Morrow Elizabeth Rezek Sally Ensberg Jean Oberlander Lajewski David & Joanne Morton Bernadine Rindels DeLoris Erickson Richard & Gloria Landborg Michael & Carol Mullin James & Danah Riswold Don & Judy Erickson Jerry & Cheryl Larson Milton & Ruby Mutch Charles Robinson Ann Esse Robert & Margaret Larson Ham & Pearl Muus Gisele Robinson Marvin Evenson Richard & Shirley Lauer Virginia Myers Opal Rogness Ken & Crystal Fedders Ron & Ione Laycock Robert Nady Suzanne Rusch Mary Jane Fenn League of Women Voters Carlyle & Janet Naessig National Library of Norway/Oslo *matching gift, #deceased Robert & Lela Feuerborn Robert & Helen Lehr continued on page 14 Gary & Barbara Fish Leland & Ardis Lillehaug Divn Robert Natz Beverly Barnes Fix Verlyn & Nora Lindell FALL 2010 • PAGE 13 Neil & Kathleen Wischmann Gifts in Memory of… Bruce & Rita Blake James Wisecup June Event 2010: In Memory of Melvin Berens Ron & Becky Brakke Charles Woodard William & Ihlene Rossing Celebrating the Art Kate Campbell Ada Yakal of JoAnne Bird, Ron & Kay Christensen Edward & Nancy Zawada In Memory of Sandra Brown Stan & Sandy Christopherson Denny & Karolee Zea Donors & Sponsors Gary & Rosaaen Olson Gary & Sandy Earl Elden & Solveig Zempel Sponsors $2,500 Carole Foster Ruth Ziolkowski In Memory of Lester Brue Robert Law & Gerry Berger Law Larry & Suzanne Fuller Robert & Joan Thimjon Elizabeth Gutch Patrons $1,000 - $2,499 Dick & Edna Haase Matching Gifts In Memory of Gerald John McIntyre Milt & Marjorie Hanson Dow AgroSciences Christopherson V. Ronald & Joyce Nelson Michael & Jean Haug First National Bank Sioux Falls William & Ihlene Rossing Jerry & Gail Simmons Pete & Marilyn Hegg Medtronic Foundation Rueben & Madeline Hoheisel Monsanto Fund In Memory of Roscoe Dean Donors $500 - $999 Tim Hoheisel Prudential Foundation Gail & Susan Arnott David & Glenice Johnson Tom & Gloria Houle Thrivent Thomas Dean Mark Griffin, Lewis Drug Howard & Eunice Hovland Wells Fargo Foundation Harriet Hybertson Xcel Energy Foundation In Memory of Sid Epstein Contributors $250 - $499 Sandy Jerstad Frank & Jan Gibbs Dennis & Julie Anderson, Kim & Jean Johnke First Dakota Title Glenn & Phyllis Jorgenson Other Endowment Gifts In Memory of Richard Forman Lynn & Barbara Aspaas Tom & Lorna Kilian Hugh & Ruth Ann Venrick Tony Bour, Showplace Wood Anne King L. 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Ronald & Joyce Nelson Walter & Ardith Tofteland Harold & Leona Schuler Prairie Star Gallery Truman & Nancy Phelan Ole Tweet Roger & Shirley Schuller Mary Selvig Peg Ranney Molly Uden Donald & Harriet Scott South Dakota Archaeological Society Larry Ritz Steven Van Bockern & Sarah Reed & Karin Scott United Church of Christ William & Vicenta Rossing Steven & Lupe Seim Drennan David & Bonnie Stavig William & Beverly Simpson Betti VanEpps-Taylor Harry & Ronelle Thompson Danny Smeins Gloria Vatne Gifts in Honor of… Karl & Margaret Wegner Jon & Kristy Sogn Al & Lois Vogele Winkels Group Craig & Suzannah Spencer Jay & Elizabeth Vogt In Honor of Lynn Aspaas Rolland & Sandy Steinberg David Volk Tammy V. Otten In Memory of Arthur Huseboe Lloyd & Dorothy Stivers John Weber James & Bonnie Ageton Arvella Stokke James & Violet Wehde In Honor of Arthur R. Huseboe Joanne Ambroson Maureen Suga Bill & Barbara White Julie Ann Iverson Loren & Mavis Amundson Robert & Katherine Talley Robert & Kaye Whitmore Duane & Margaret Anderson Paul & Donna Willadsen In Honor of Harry Thompson Kenneth & Sandra Wischmann Elaine McIntosh *matching gift, #deceased PAGE 14 • FALL 2010 continued on page 15 David Aronson & Marilyn Carlson Rock & Marilyn Nelson Aronson Dorcas Ode Lynn & Barbara Aspaas Gordon & Mila Ode SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Elizabeth Balcer Art & Ruth Olsen Ken & Jean Bauge Gary & Rosaaen Olson FALL-WINTER 2010 L. M. Baylor Joyce Olson Esther Bowden Lynwood Oyos SEPTEMBER Lois Boyce Abbie Pagone 6 Labor Day Gary & Mary Brendtro Bill & Pat Pearson 8 Augustana Fall Semester classes begin Miles & Marilyn Browne Howard & Trudy Peckham Jean Bunday LaMoyne & Karyn Pederson 13-17 Mountain-Plains Museum Assoc. Conference, Darrell Butterwick Glen & Irene Peterson Rapid City John Bylsma John & Jane Rasmussen 22-24 SD Library Associates Conference, Sioux Falls Charlotte Carver Ray Reiners 23 Augustana Academy for Seniors Mary Child Ron & Margaret Robinson 24-26 SD Festival of Books–A Harvest of Words released Paul & Judy Child William & Ihlene Rossing Ray & Alice Christensen Murray & Helen Rowe Dean Clarke Gonzalo & Lois Sanchez OCTOBER Robin Coon Marilyn Schmutterer 7 Augustana Art: Then & Now Exhibition Opening Nancy Dickinson & Patrick Traut Dean & Sharon Schueler Reception Gary & Sandra Earl Miles & Vickie Schumacher 8-10 Viking Days Norman & Clarice Eitrheim Don & Harriet Scott 9 Augustana Faculty Autograph Party Joan Eitrheim Kent Scribner 11 Native American Day Eloise Elmen Sue Scribner Robert & Rita Elmen Craig & Kristin Snyder 20 Augustana Academy for Seniors David & Janice Evans Robert & Sharon Steensma 21 Augustana Library Associates, speaker Mary Louge Don & Kathleen Fjellestad David & Shirley Stenseth 27 CWS Board Meeting Lawrence Fuller Mary Hart Sugarman & Burt Frank & Jan Gibbs Sugarman NOVEMBER Vance & Sherry Goldammer Harry & Ronelle Thompson 17 Augustana Academy for Seniors Daniel & Kathlyn Hacking Stacey Vanden Heuvel & Rashid 25 Thanksgiving David & Deborah Hagemeier Kadir Carol Rae Hansen Betti VanEpps-Taylor Milt & Marj Hanson Arlen & Betty Viste DECEMBER Willis & Phyllis Hanson Jay & Elizabeth Vogt 11 CWS Christmas Luncheon and Board & Council Phyllis Harmsen Jamie & Penny Volin Meeting Michael & Jean Haug Karl & Margaret Wegner Roger Haugo David Wehde Edward Hogan James Wehde Candis Hanson & Michael Crane Tom & Lorna Kilian Dennis Holub Bill & Barbara Wyatt Phyllis Harmsen Bill & Alice Kruse Thomas & Gloria Houle Terry & Stephanie Yeager Roger Haugo Naomi Linnell Howard & Eunice Hovland Randi Helder John & Roberta Liwski Harriet Hybertson In Memory of Warren Jorve Stacey Hennen Cynthia Mickelson Julie Iverson Sid Haugen Gary & Sarah Kulm Laird & Iris Rasmussen Charles & Annette Jarratt Priscilla Jorve David Lillehaug George & Judith Regan Sandy Jerstad Douglas Nelson Robert Locke Pat Rogers Claudia Kapp Gonzalo & Lois Sanchez Morris & Edith Magnuson Gonzalo & Lois Sanchez Frances Kilen Dean & Lorraine Mann Rick & Pamela Thompson Tom & Lorna Kilian In Memory of Nels Larsen Maurice & Shirley Matson Mary Venrick Roy & Helen Kintner Gary & Sandra Earl Thomas & Martha Nelson James & Anna White Wayne & Esther Knutson Oakleaf Real Estate Mgmt Marvin & Katherine Widness William Krause, II In Memory of Duane Matz Jeffrey Parker Harold & Phyllis Krueger Anonymous Deanna Sanderson In Memory of Steven Wallenberg Paul & Joni Krueger William Carland & Barbara Peterson Harold Schuler John & Shirly Hillgren David Kvernes Timothy Ellis Winifred Smith Lex Larson Dean & Sharon Schueler David & Pamella Sonnichsen In Memory of Ada May Yeager Lowell Larson Harry & Ronelle Thompson Robert & Arlene Stenberg George Afdahl Joyce Lauer Hal & Jane Wick Larry Afdahl Robert Law & Gerry Berger Law In Memory of Hazel Moe James Wiese Melissa Afdahl Herman & Carol Lerdal Harry & Ronelle Thompson Connie Wosje Richard Afdahl Stephan & Monica Lhotzky Tom Haber Leland & Ardis Lillehaug In Memory of Oscar Oberg In Memory of Anna Spilde Roger Haugo Verlyn & Nora Lindell William & Ihlene Rossing Arline Bagaason Lucille Lindskov Vicki Madsen Tamara Baker Tom & Beth Masterson Morris & Edith Magnuson In Memory of Ardyce Samp Elizabeth Balcer John Odney Carolyn Margulies Anonymous Robert & Jacquelyn Bogue Matthew & Paula Pardy Roy & Dorothy Mayeske Mary Bibby James Clark John Stern Thomas McComb Richard & Susan Brook Lois Eggers Bernard Woolschlager Elaine McIntosh Kimber DeBono Eloise Elmen John McIntyre Martin & Carol Engquist Henry & Ruth Helgen *matching gift, #deceased Daniel Nachel Richard & Jacquelyn Gunnarson Margot Hood-Rogers Nancy Owen Nelson Stanley & Delores Hammer Wallace Jones FALL 2010 • PAGE 15 NON-PROFIT The Center for Western Studies ORGANIZATION Coming in October… Augustana College U.S. POSTAGE 2001 S. 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Council Member Arthur Amiotte Receives Bush Foundation Award

akota artist and art Sioux people. Amiotte uses images of Indians in tribal and historical historian Dr. Arthur D. images from epic, mural-sized settings. In Amiotte’s collages, the Sioux L Amiotte, a long-time drawings by his great- who traveled with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West member of the CWS grandfather Standing Bear Show are portrayed in European cities and National Advisory Council, (1870 to 1930) to create a landscapes as they reflect on the newness is a recipient of the visual narrative and strangeness of Enduring Vision Award from of his family their experiences. The the Bush Foundation. Each during this texts that appear in year, up to three artists who period. The the paintings are the have at least 25 years of collage words of his great- experience as working materials tell grandfather, artists and who are the story of grandparents, and residents of Minnesota, Lakota people others of their North Dakota or South Dakota, receive adapting to the farming generation. The Bush $100,000 to be distributed over a three- and ranching lifestyle, Foundation previously to five-year period. economy, and society of awarded Amiotte a These awards are designed to propel the reservation in the late Bush Leadership the artistic investigations of mature artists 19th and 20th centuries. Fellowship in 1980 and to encourage their continued After receiving the Arts and Bush Artist influence on present and future International Lila Wallace Fellowship in 2002. generations of artists, audiences and the Reader’s Digest Artists He lives in Custer, SD, artist’s field of work. Fellowship in 1997, Amiotte and exhibits Arthur Amiotte was born and raised on lived at the Claude Monet CWS has an original Arthur Amiotte regionally, nationally, painting in its permanent collection. the Pine Ridge Reservation in South residence in Giverny, Amiotte painted “Wind in Her and internationally. Dakota. His current work in collage France, where he began Blanket” in 1965, and the Center Article courtesy of the documents the history and culture of the making collages mixing acquired it in 2001. Bush Foundation.