Linda Haukaas

Linda Haukaas is a contemporary Sicangu Lakota, Native American, ledger artist. Haukaas' work can be found in numerous museums such as the Brooklyn Museum, the British Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian.

Biography Linda Haukaas was born in 1957 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Okreek, South Dakota. She has a brother. Haukaas grew up primarily in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where her mother was from, and visited the Reservation some summers.

An example of Haukaas' style and content can be seen in her drawing, Horse Nation from 2010. This drawing was created on late 1800's ledger paper with colored pencil and ink and can be found in the Brooklyn Museum. It shows four women standing in front of four horses. The women are wearing elaborate regalia that depicts horses in war and each woman is carrying a feather fan and a pouch.

Lakota Woman I and Lakota Woman II, 2003 (Artist's Collection)

Return From War Dance, 2003 (Hood Museum of Art)

Chase the Art Patron, 2006 (Artist's Collection)

Her First Dance, 2008 (Collection of Ellen Taubman)

Horse Nation, 2010 ( Brooklyn Museum)