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(July 10, 2006) - Twenty-four additional images will be on exhibition beginning Sunday, July 16 as part of “Vision Quest: Men, Women, and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation” by Fr. Don Doll, S.J. The photo exhibition runs through August. Admission is free. The additional images include portraits of Native leaders and a panorama titled “The Twentieth Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Occupation, February 27, 1993.” Since its May 14 opening at the Center, “Vision Quest” has been seen by more than 9,000 visitors. “Vision Quest” is composed of 76 color photographs of contemporary Lakota and Dakota people of the Sioux Nation who have chosen to carry traditions and culture of their people to future generations. The additional 24 images include portraits of Dr. Bea Medicine, Hinsha Waste Agli Ohetica Win, Courageous Woman Returns with a Sorrel Horse, an anthropologist and retired university professor; Joe Flying Bye, Kangi Hotanka, Crow With A Loud Voice, a Dakota medicine man; Mario Gonzalez, Eyapaha, He Who Speaks For Them, the first Oglala-licensed attorney; and Tim Giago, Nanwica Kciji, Stands Up For Them, founder of The Lakota Times. The Vision Quest is a Native ceremony. It includes fasting and prayer which prepare the person to receive a vision and to discover what path his or her life should take. The Vision Quest usually takes place in an isolated area, generally without food or water. It may last up to four days. Often, a medicine man helps the person interpret his or her dreams or visions. Fr. Doll seeks to reach visitors not only through the photographs, but also by “giving voice” to his subjects in narratives that accompany the portraits. Fr. Doll is Professor of Fine Arts at Creighton University, Omaha, where he holds the Charles and Mary Heider Endowed Jesuit Chair. His work has been featured in National Geographic magazine; and a number of “Day in the Life” books, including America, California, Italy, Ireland, Passage to Vietnam, and Christmas in America. His photographs also have been published in “Crying for a Vision” (Morgan and Morgan Publishers) and “Vision Quest: Men, Women and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation” (Crown Publishers). He appears in the “Vision Quest” CD-ROM which is available in the Center’s bookstore. “Vision Quest” posters also are sold at the Center. Fr. Doll has received the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism in recognition of his work with Native people. He also has received the Nikon “World Understanding through Photography” award. He was named 2006 Nebraska Artist of the Year by the Nebraska Arts Council. In 2003, Fr. Doll photographed a series of landscape and panoramas of the Lewis & Clark Trail between St. Louis, Mo., and the Pacific Ocean near Ft. Clatsop. Recently, he photographed the work of Jesuits assisting Tsunami victims in India and Sri Lanka, and the educational work of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Uganda and Southern Sudan. “Vision Quest” is the result of Fr. Doll’s love of portrait photography combined with his long-standing relationship with the Sioux. A Milwaukee, Wis., native, he first encountered the Sioux reservation communities as a young Jesuit priest when he was assigned to St. Francis Mission on the Rosebud Reservation from 1962 to 1965. During that time he began working with a camera. He studied photojournalism at Marquette University, Milwaukee.The Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, exit 149 off I-29, is a private, non-profit institution built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). Admission, all programs, exhibits, activities and materials are free. For more information, contact 224-5242.
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