Featured Photo: Indigenous ‘Dignity’ Towers Over Missouri River

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"Dignity"

The 50-foot, 50-ton steel sculpture “Dignity,” depicting a young Lakota girl and created by Black Hills artist Dale Lamphere, has risen in Chamberlain, South Dakota. (Photo by David Rooks)

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"Dignity"

The 50-foot, 50-ton steel sculpture “Dignity,” depicting a young Lakota girl and created by Black Hills artist Dale Lamphere, has risen in Chamberlain, South Dakota. (Photo by David Rooks)

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Featured Photo: Indigenous ‘Dignity’ Towers Over Missouri River

By:

ICTMN Staff

10/14/16

Travelers on I-90 will see quite the site after crossing the Missouri River after coming through Chamberlain, South Dakota. The serene landscape is interrupted by a 50-foot tall, stainless steel sculpture of a Lakota girl. With her shawl open to the wind, she dances upon a bluff.

To safely stop and take a look there is a rest area off of exit 264, where onlookers can take pictures, and view the sculpture by Dale Lamphere up close. About “Dignity,” Lamphere said: “There’s also a process of giving deeply enough to bring it to life. I have to fall in love with that person I am trying to draw out. It’s a birthing … you’re bringing something to life … it’s coming out of you … and it’s painful.”

To read more about the project, click the link below:

This image was featured in this week’s Indian Country Today Media Network newsletter.