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Tatanka, the Lakota name for Buffalo or Bison, is an installation by Olivia Beens inspired by the Wyoming landscape and the history of our country’s westward expansion. The plight of the buffalo, once nearly extinct is intertwined with that of Native American peoples. While in residence at the Jentel Foundation for the Arts in Sheridan, Wyoming the artist was moved by the vast open spaces of the area. Using found photographs, aerial views of Wyoming and Colorado Beens intersperses cast buffalos to indicate the near eradication of our country’s national mammal. There are now between 150,000 …