PIONEER PBS | GRANITE FALLS, MN What is Buffalo Hide Painting? | Fern Cloud | Postcards IMPACT STORY
Pioneer PBS has made an Upper Midwest Emmy ® Award-winning story about Fern Cloud (pictured above), a Native American designer and Dakota hide painter who uses traditional paint pigments and bone brushes to convey symbolism and history on buffalo and deer hides. She has served as a pastor of the Upper Sioux Community Pejuhutazizi Presbyterian Church for the past 18 years. Cloud is also the great-great-granddaughter of Taoyateduta known as “Little Crow,” who was a Chief of a band of Mdewakanton Dakota people in the 1860’s. With this award-winning documentary and others before it, Pioneer PBS is working with Dakota people to help reframe the narrative of what it means to be a native person in this state. In the past, the dominant narrative surrounding native people was one of conflict, focused on the past. With these Pioneer PBS documentaries, Dakota people are featured as artists, spiritual leaders and teachers living in our midst, vibrantly with cultural integrity.
“My PBS Postcard feature exposed my work to new audiences and elevated my artistic vision that narrative has the power for social change in our increasingly diverse rural communities of Minnesota to resounding positive responses.” –Kandace Creel Falcón
“Postcards has given traditional hide painting exposure as an endangered traditional method of painting.” –Fern Cloud, Granite Falls, MN
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