Grand Teton hosts annual American Indian guest artist program at Colter Bay
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Grand Teton National Park will host American Indian artists at the Colter Bay Visitor Center this summer to share their traditional and contemporary art with park visitors. This annual summer program, which has been in existence since the mid-1970s, is scheduled through October 3.
Participating artists will demonstrate and share the cultural traditions of their tribes through art forms such as painting, weaving, pottery, beadwork, musical instruments, and more. Artists also offer their finished items for purchase.
Visitors are invited to learn about American Indian cultures and view demonstrations. The program is available during open hours of the Colter Bay Visitor Center, 9am to 5pm daily. Beginning June 8, hours of operation will extend 8am to 5pm daily.
There are 574 federally recognized Indian Nations, with 6.7 million Native Americans living in the United States today throughout the country. Grand Teton National Park is the ancestral lands of 24 affiliated tribes, determined through treaties, and include the following tribes:
- Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
- Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
- Blackfeet Tribe of Montana
- Burns Paiute
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma
- Coeur D’Alene Tribe
- Comanche Nation, Oklahoma
- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
- Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
- Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
- Crow Tribe of Montana
- Eastern Shoshone Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- Gros Ventre & Assiniboine Tribes of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana
- Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma
- Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
- Nez Perce Tribe
- Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
- Northern Cheyenne Tribe
- Oglala Sioux Tribe
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota
- Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
