How to Build Mirror Shields for Water Protectors

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Cultural affiliations: Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota

born 1979

How to Build Mirror Shields for Water Protectors, 2016

Portfolio/Series title: this work will be displayed adjacent to the museum's entrance

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: four minutes 43 seconds; video

Accession number: EL2023.009

Not on display

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The Mirror Shield Project began in 2016 to support water protectors protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline near Standing Rock, North Dakota. In this video, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger invited people to create mirrored shields for protectors to use. In a few weeks, over 1,000 shields were received from across the nation and became central to the protectors’ visual language and the events that ensued. The Mirror Shield Project has since been used in various resistance movements around the world.