I Still Live Here Print
Art: I Still Live Here
Artist: Jenny Hale
Collection: 2018 VTA // Invisible No More
Art Description: Through a window in time, a Nisenan dancer turns his back on a village that has displaced his own. Before Nevada City, the Nisenan lived at the same bend of Deer Creek in a village called ‘ustomah. His essence will forever live in the natural world of the Northern Sierra Foothills, and miraculously, his descendants still walk here. The dancer is superimposed over an engraving of Nevada City in 1851.
In 1848 there were 7,000 indigenous people in Nevada County. By 1852 that number was reduced to 3,226, due to murder, disease, loss of hunting grounds, and relocation. Confronting the destruction of the Nisenan, is a small first step in acknowledging the humanity, and value of the people who came before. Today there are 144 descendants of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan.
Art: I Still Live Here
Artist: Jenny Hale
Collection: 2018 VTA // Invisible No More
Art Description: Through a window in time, a Nisenan dancer turns his back on a village that has displaced his own. Before Nevada City, the Nisenan lived at the same bend of Deer Creek in a village called ‘ustomah. His essence will forever live in the natural world of the Northern Sierra Foothills, and miraculously, his descendants still walk here. The dancer is superimposed over an engraving of Nevada City in 1851.
In 1848 there were 7,000 indigenous people in Nevada County. By 1852 that number was reduced to 3,226, due to murder, disease, loss of hunting grounds, and relocation. Confronting the destruction of the Nisenan, is a small first step in acknowledging the humanity, and value of the people who came before. Today there are 144 descendants of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan.
Art: I Still Live Here
Artist: Jenny Hale
Collection: 2018 VTA // Invisible No More
Art Description: Through a window in time, a Nisenan dancer turns his back on a village that has displaced his own. Before Nevada City, the Nisenan lived at the same bend of Deer Creek in a village called ‘ustomah. His essence will forever live in the natural world of the Northern Sierra Foothills, and miraculously, his descendants still walk here. The dancer is superimposed over an engraving of Nevada City in 1851.
In 1848 there were 7,000 indigenous people in Nevada County. By 1852 that number was reduced to 3,226, due to murder, disease, loss of hunting grounds, and relocation. Confronting the destruction of the Nisenan, is a small first step in acknowledging the humanity, and value of the people who came before. Today there are 144 descendants of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan.