Visiting Fellow, 2022 – 2023
Nina Sanders
Biography
Nina Sanders (Apsáalooke) is a curator, writer, and cultural consultant. She has worked for institutions like the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the School for Advanced Research, and the Field Museum, where she curated the groundbreaking exhibition Apsáalooke Women and Warriors. Her writing can be found in Smithsonian, Native American Art Magazine, among other publications. In 2020 she edited Apsáalooke Women and Warriors, a book published on the occasion of the exhibition that explores the past, present, and future of Apsáalooke culture. Sanders lectures widely on Indigenous conservation, and she has recently consulted with organizations including the Burpee Museum of Natural History, the Indianapolis Indians, and the Chicago Blackhawks. Sanders currently resides on the Crow reservation, on the banks of the Little Bighorn River, at Medicine Tail Coulee.