The Classroom That Should Have Been (2022)

Central installation view: 
Iroquois Confederacy Flag, We Are the Haudenosaunee film courtesy of Tree Media,
teacher's desk and chair courtesy of Grand Theatre, artist's sculpture The Birth of Vida,
chalkboard with basic Haudenosaunee teachings, students' desks courtesy of Woodland Cultural Centre,
artist's Big Teach Tablets on students' desks

Medicines on teacher's desk: tobacco, sage, sweetgrass, cedar

Left side view

Detail of instruments: hand drum, water drum (made by Ron Hill, generously lent), cow horn rattle

Detail on mantel of Steve Smith's Talking Earth pottery courtesy of/from Glenhyrst's collection 
and artist's painting Her Reciprocal Love with Coneflower

Detail of Chief Sidney Tadadaho Hill co-narrating/teaching in We Are the Haudenosaunee

Detail of chalkboard with basic Haudenosaunee teachings

Detail of Chief Oren Lyons co-narrating/teaching in We Are the Haudenosaunee

Detail of artist's The Birth of Vida and print of Oren Lyons' painting, Tree of Peace: Circa Ninth Century AD

Right side view with Six Nations Territory Map Circa 1720 after the adoption of the Tuscarora by the Oneida
courtesy of Big Bear Media, Oneida Nation, WI

Mixed Media Installation

5.18 m x 6.1 m