• Lawrence Ahvakana (Inupiaq/Inuit)

  • Glass Doors and Wooden Carvings (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • OHSU Native Art Collection, Inuit Drummer

• Rick Bartow (Wiyot)

  • ​“The Responsibility of Raising a Child”

  • "Sentinel Pole"

  • "Young Hawk"

  • “Po’ok Deer, PlegIt, Old Man on the Hill”

  • "CS Spegi" Lithograph (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • Rosa Parks Max Station Exhibition, "Always Looking"

  • ​Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • Ainsworth Greenspace, “Crow”

  • "Crows" (PSU Native Student Center)​

• David Boxley (Tsimshian)

  • OHSU Native Art Collection, Wooden Carving​

• ​Derek No-sun Brown (Shoshone-Bannock, Anishinabe)

  • “Sound of Blessings”

• Joe Cantrell (Cherokee) 

  • Rosa Parks Max Station Exhibition, "Little John"​

• Phillip John Charette (Yup’ik)

  • ​Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

• Jim Charlie (Salish)

  • ​"Eagle Mask" (PSU Native Student Center)​

• Chinook Nation

  • Chinook Plankhouse (Ridgefield)

• Pat Courtney Gold (Warm Springs)

  • “Cylinder Bag” (Portland Art Museum)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

• Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath and Modoc)

  • ​“After Boarding School: In Mourning” (Portland Art Museum)

  • “Vision Quest Mythology”

• Joe Feddersen (Colville)​

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • Portland Art Museum, various works

• Ryan Feddersen (Colville)​

  • ​"Inhabitance"

• Justin Finkbonner (Lummi)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works​

• Jaque Fragua (Jemez Pueblo)

  • Untitled Mural​

• Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut) and Jerrod (Tlingit/Unangan) Galanin who work together under the name Leonard Getinthecar

  • ​"Space Invaders"

  • "Natural Resources"

• Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw and Cherokee)

  • ​“One for the Other”

  • “ALIVE!”

• Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • "Neuf for Modoc" (PSU Native Student Center)​

• ​Allan Houser (Apache)

  • "Desert Harvest" (Portland Art Museum)

  • Unnamed Sculpture

• Richard Hunt (Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Nation of Canada)

  • ​"Welcoming Pole"

• Doug Hyde (Nez Perce, Assiniboine, and Chippewa ancestry)

  • ​Statue of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Family Sculpture

• Jim Jackson (Klamath)

  • ​"Emerging Figures" (PSU Native Student Center)​

• Tony A. Johnson (Chinook)

  • "Guests from the Great River”

  • “Transom Canoe"

  • “Wapato"

  • Chinook Plankhouse (project coordinator + art)

  • “Chinook Door"

  • "Ancestor"

  • “Nicháqwli Monument”

• Spencer Keeton Cunningham (Colville) 

  • Untitled Mural​

• Brian Krehbiel (Grand Ronde)

  • ​"The Story of how Coyote and Meadowlark Created Willamette Falls"

• James Lavadour (Umatilla)

  • Rosa Parks Max Station Exhibition, "Scaffold"

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • Multnomah County Courthouse Exhibition, various works

  • "Like Rain"

  • "Late Summer #3"

  • Untitled Landscape

  • Portland Art Museum, various works

  • "Ghost Camp" (PSU Native Student Center)​

• Truman Lowe (Winnebago)

  • ​"Wana Napt" (PSU Native Student Center)​

• ​​Jessica Mehta (Cherokee)

  • LHS Mural, “Revitalize the Indigenous language…”​

• Bobby Mercier (Grand Ronde)

  • ​"Carver"

• Lillian Pitt (Warm Springs)

  • Rosa Parks Max Station Exhibition, "Watchful Eyes"

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • Multnomah County Courthouse Exhibition, various works

  • Ainsworth Greenspace, “She Who Watches”

  • OHSU Native Art Collection, sculpture

  • "River Guardian"

  • "Voices"

  • Basalt Carvings

  • "Riverbed"

  • Vancouver Land Bridge Art

  • “Cultural Totem”

  • "Salmon Cycle Marker" (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • “Petroglyph Column” (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • “Roof Journey Guardians" (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • "Sound Baffles" (Petroglyph Drawings, PSU Native Student Center)

  • "She Who Watches" (PSU Native Student Center)

• Wendy Red Star (Crow)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • "Rez Car 2"

  • “Apsáalooke Feminist #2”

• Greg A. Robinson (Chinook)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • Multnomah County Courthouse Exhibition, various works

  • "Chinook Power Board"

  • "We Have Always Lived Here"

  • Tayi ("Headman") Stone

  • LHS Mural, Frog Graphic

• Sara Siestreem (Hanis, Coos)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • "Common Threads"

  • "Salmon House" (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • "Permanent Marker System" (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • LHS Mural, "All Indian Land"

  • Portland Intenational Airport Exhibition, various works

• Preston Singletary (Tlingit)

  • ​"Entry Doors" (PSU Native Student Center)​

  • “Tlingit Dancing Staff”

• Dan “Lelooska” Smith (Cherokee descent)

  • ​"Totem Pole"

• Travis Stewart (Grand Ronde)

  • ​"The Man from Kosh-huk-shix"

  • "Wapato Woman"

  • “Coyote”

• Gail Tremblay (Mi'kmaq and Onondaga)

  • "Voices" (wrote the text)​

  • Rosa Parks Max Station Exhibition, "The Ghost of Salmon"

• Unknown

  • "She Who Watches" Petroglyph and Pictograph (rock art)

  • Willamette Falls Petroglyph

  • Clackamas River Petroglyph

• Toma Villa (Yakama)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • Multnomah County Courthouse Exhibition, various works

  • “Pushing the Darkness Back Up Into the Sky”

  • "Chief Joseph"

  • "Grandmother's Prayers"

  • "Spirit Pole"

  • “Friendship Band”

  • Unnamed Mural

  • Unnamed Mosaic

• Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee)

  • ​"Bearpaw Battlefield I"

• Marie Watt (Seneca)

  • Portland City Hall Exhibition, various works

  • "Skywalker (Range of Light)"

  • "Omphalos and Portal" (PSU Native Student Center)​

• ​Terresa White (Yup’ik)

  • "Owl and Lemming"​

  • "Immersed"

  • Unnamed Sculpture

• Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs)

  • ​"Coyote and Woman"

• ​Shirod Younker (Coquille/Coos)

  • Unnamed Mural​

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Non-Native artists who depicted Native subjects:

• Alice Cooper

  • “Sacajawea sculpture”

• Travis Czekalski

  • “Chinook Nation mural”

• Eric Jensen

  • “Ilchee sculpture”

• Travis London

  • “Occupied Illahee mural”

• ​Ken MacKintosh

  • Rosa Parks Max Station Exhibition, "Salmon Essence"

  • Ainsworth Greenspace, “Salmon”

• ​ Adam McIsaac

  • "Guests from the Great River" (with Tony Johnson)

  • “Transom Canoe" (with Tony Johnson)

  • "Ancestor" (with Tony Johnson)

  • “Nicháqwli Monument” (with Tony Johnson)

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A note from Dr. Tracy J. Prince about how artists were picked to be featured on the map:

The focus of this list is on enrolled tribal members. Since there is a federal law prohibiting the marketing of Native art designs by non-Native people, it was important to be selective about which art to include on the map.

 

If a person is of Native descent (not an enrolled tribal member, but claims connections through ancestry), their tribal affiliation is listed as “descent.” Adoption into a tribe, while meaningful to tribal families, does not denote legal (enrolled) status in either the US or Canada. Enrolled tribal members are listed with the name of their tribe (many are confederations of different tribal bands). Native subjects depicted by non-Native people are listed as such. Most non-Native artists are included because their art was made in deep collaboration with Native artists who contributing to the design and/or the creation. The Sacajawea Statue (by non-Native artist Alice Cooper) is included because of this statue’s importance to the Women’s Suffrage movement, because a photo of Native women was used as the model, and because Oregon women raised money to erect this statue to make sure that Sacajawea was acknowledged as a heroine during Portland's 1905 Lewis and Clark Expo where the men's exploits were being heralded.

 

Oregon has an epidemic of Native art designs by non-Native people, including hundreds of totem poles made by Boy Scouts or non-Native artists. Totem poles were not part of Oregon’s tribal histories. Because of this history, and because of the federal law cited above, such totem poles are not included on the map. Totem poles are cultural traditions for tribes in parts of British Columbia, Alaska, and Northwestern Washington State, where rights to carve particular icons on totem poles are passed through family lineage. Oregon also has many totem poles carved by unenrolled Native artists who do not descend from a tribe with totem pole carving traditions. (Most of America’s 574 federally recognized tribes do not have totem pole carving traditions.) Such art has been de-emphasized on the map — in respect for specific tribal lineage rights to carve totem poles. The hope is that the map brings more attention to Oregon’s historic tribal iconography and to contemporary Native art traditions in Oregon.