This work was inspired by members of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and their protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline from 2016–17. Woven in a traditional Cherokee “chain” pattern, the basket’s interior—colored red, green, and white—represent land, water, and air. Each woven strip contains text from the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 which granted land in South Dakota to the Lakota people, including the area of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Shan Goshorn, a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee, a tribal nation based in western North Carolina, demonstrates mutual concern for climate across geographic lines. This work expresses solidarity, especially with other indigenous nations whose environments have been historically transgressed by colonial violence.

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