Exhibition: Beyond Bison by Tailyr Irvine

Tailyr Irvine is a Salish and Kootenai journalist born and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. Her work focuses on providing in-depth representations of the lives and complex issues within the diverse communities that make up Native America.
Tailyr is a co-founder of Indigenous Photograph, a global database dedicated to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities and to reflect on how we tell these stories. Tailyr works the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian and is a frequent contributor for the New York Times.
This collection pairs photographs of the Bison Range under tribal management with photographs of tribal members using land-based practices to demonstrate their territory’s significance to their history, traditions and culture as well as their commitment to maintaining it.