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  Laura Youngbird is an artist and art educator. She earned her BS, BFA and MA from Minnesota State University Moorhead with a minor in American Indian Studies. As an undergraduate she worked in the Archeology department as a lab and field assistant. She's an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa, Grand Portage Band. The themes in her work originated from experiences her family and particularly her grandmother had while at boarding schools and issues that surrounded their assimilation into non-Indian culture. Laura also explores the influences of Christianity on American Indian spirituality and life views.

 Photo: Ann Arbor Miller 

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Wooden Indian 1
16"x16"

Wooden Indian 5
16"x16"

Wooden Indian 2
16"x16"

Wooden Indian 3
16"x16"

Wooden Indian 4
16"x16"

Alteration
36"x28"

Common Thread
22"x28" 2015

Common Thread 2
22"x28" 2015 [Sold]

Common Thread 3
22"x28" 2015 [Not for Sale]

Common Thread 4
22"x28" 2015 [Not for Sale]

One Size
22"x28" 2015 [Sold]

Red Cedar Woman
22"x28" 2015

One Size
22"x28" 2015 [Sold]

Common Thread
22"x28" 2015

Common Thread
22"x28" 2015

Common Thread
22"x28" 2015

Remember
22"x28" 2015 [Sold]

One Size 12
22"x28" 2015

One Size 15
36"x28" 2015

One Size 16
36"x28" 2015

One Size 18
36"x28" 2015

One Size 19
36"x28" 2015

One Size 1
28"x20" 2015

One Size 2
28"x20" 2015

Collage
24"x18" 2018

Blood Memory
20"x16"

Colonization

Red Dress

Dress I
30" x 40" Silk Screen, Collograph $475 Each (variables)

Dress II
30" x 40" Silk Screen, Collograph $475 Each (variables)

Assimilation Dress I
16" x 20" Not for Sale

DyedPaperDress

DyedPaperDress1

DyedPaperDress2

DyedPaperDress3

FrozenWatercolor

EncausticDress

RedDressInTheWoods3

RedDressInTheWoods

RedDressInTheWoods2

WhiteDressesInTheWoods

WhiteDressesInTheWoods2

WhiteDressesITW

WhiteDressesOnBlue

WhiteDressOnGreenPaper

manifestation

Nanaboozhoo
Pyrography and colored pencil on basswood.

Three Quarter
28" x 36" North Dakota State University Collection: Not for Sale

Assimilation Dress
24" x 48" Not for Sale

First Communion
24" x 48" $500 USD

Assimilation Dress
24" x 48" Not for Sale

Conformation Suit
24" x 48" Not for Sale

No Face Boy
32" x 40" Plains Art Museum Permanent Collection (Fargo, ND)

No Face Girl
32" x 40" Plains Art Museum Permanent Collection (Fargo, ND)

Under the Stars
48" x 67" $2000 USD

Family Tree
48" x 67" $2000 USD

Continuance
32" x 40" Not for Sale

Gwen
20" x 16" $450 USD

Jason
20" x 16" $450 USD

Jason and Winona
20" x 16" Sold: Private Collection

Winona
20" x 16" $450 USD

Felix
20" x 16" $450 USD

Marcie
20" x 16" $450 USD

Pat
20" x 16" $450 USD

Rita
20" x 16" Sold: Private Collection

Ghost Scroll
4" x 6" Not for Sale

Gitchi Gummi
4" x 6" Not for Sale

CopperScroll

Petroglyph
17" x 30" $474 Each (variables)

Buried A-C is for Columbus
30" x 40" Lithograph: Not for Sale

Mask

Masquarade

Waabange (Witness) I-III
20" x 17" Monoprint, $475 USD Each

Waabange (Witness) IV
20" x 17" Monoprint, Not for Sale

Continuation

Continuation2

~Dress

Dress2

Dress3

InTheWoods

30Days

ThirthyDays2

ThirtyDays3

SevenCrows

SevenCrows2

SevenCrows5

SevenCrows6

Saga

ItsOnlyCastlesBurning

ItsOnlyCastlesBurning2

LittleMooseMonotype

LoseEnds

ThreadBare

Mishiipeshu

DyedPaperWorkshop

Two Birds
13" Diameter x 3" Deep $350 USD

After-Mimbres
10" Diameter x 2" Deep $200 USD

Spontaneous Being
10" Diameter x 2" Deep $200 USD

Broken
12" x 12" $700 USD

Train
13" Diameter x 3" Deep $350 USD

Dark Duo
10" Diameter x 2" Deep $200 USD

Duo
10" Diameter x 2" Deep $200 USD

Communiqué
10" Diameter x 2" Deep, Not for Sale

Dark Deer
10" Diameter x 2" Deep $200 USD

Winter
10" Diameter x 2" Deep, Not for Sale

Spirit
10" Diameter x 2" Deep, $200 USD

Twin Spirits
10" Diameter x 2" Deep, Not for Sale

Bowls
Not for Sale

Relocation
40" x 32" Not for Sale

Resemblance
24" x 30" $500 USD

Absent
36" x 48" $1200 USD

Fade Away
36" x 48" $1200 USD

Reclining White Dress
48" x 36" Sold: Private Collection

White Dress With Child
36" x 48" $1000 USD

White Dress in Chair
48" x 36" $1000 USD

White Dress
48" x 36" $1000 USD

Shame
36" x 48" $1000 USD

Silent Drum I
36" x 48" Not for Sale

Silent Drum II
36" x 48" $1000 USD

Silent Drum III
$1000 USD

Star Woman
48" x 36" $1000 USD

Wacapi Wanage
60" x 48" x 36" Sold: Private Collection

Pelican (detail)
Not for Sale

Pelican
Not for Sale

EmbossedMoose

Excavation

Danny

Envision

Issac

SheSeesInADream

Chair
Not for Sale

Chair (detail)
Not for Sale

Corn Husk Doll
5"-6" Tall

Corn Husk Dolls
5"-6" Tall

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