"We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth as "wild". To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery."

Luther Standing Bear - Rosebud Sioux

Guardian of the Water Medicine

Guardian of the Water Medicine
Dale Auger

Dale Auger

Dale Auger: On Art, Blood and Kindred Spirits
by Terri Mason

Defining Dale Auger in one sentence is akin to releasing the colours of a diamond in one cut. It can’t be done. It’s the many facets that release a diamond’s true brilliance, as it is the many facets of Auger’s life, education, ancestry, experiences and beliefs that have shaped and polished his work into the internationally acclaimed and collected artist that he is today.

Born a Sakaw Cree from the Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, Auger’s education began as a young boy when his mother would take him to be with the elders. “I used to say to myself, ‘Why is she leaving me with these old people?’ – but today I see the reason; I was being taught in the old way.”

Auger’s respect for traditional teachings led him on a journey to study art, opening the door to a doctorate in education. He is a talented playwright, speaker and visual artist whose vividly coloured acrylics have captured the attention of collectors that reads like an international ‘Who’s Who’ spanning English to Hollywood royalty. The essence of his work is communication, and now Dr. Auger has come full circle, interpreting the life of his culture – from the everyday to the sacred - through the cross-cultural medium of art.

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Friday, June 6, 2008

Donated artifacts to be displayed

By: Archie Ingersoll

DICKINSON - From the time he was a boy, Alick Dvirnak spent the spare moments of his life scanning the ground of his family’s ranch.

“No matter where I was at, I was looking,” the 89-year-old said.

He had good reason. The ranch is the site of the 1864 Battle of Killdeer Mountain, and it’s littered with history.

Arrowheads, spear points, bullets, casings, stone pipes, tomahawks and cannonball fragments left by the U.S. soldiers and Sioux warriors who fought on the land were collected by Dvirnak on Sunday walks or while working in the field.

Tomorrow, his collection of about 1,500 artifacts goes on display in Stoxen Library at Dickinson State University. The exhibit will be a permanent part of the school’s Theodore Roosevelt Center.

Clay Jenkinson, the center’s director, praised Dvirnak as not only a collector, but also an amateur historian.

“Lots of people can pick up an artifact or an arrowhead, but Alick did the hard work of reading everything there was to read about the battle and actually meeting people who had been there and working with Indians so that he would get it right,” Jenkinson said.

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