Independent photographer, Dawn E. (Dawnee) LeBeau is a member of the Itazipačola Oóhenunpa (Without bows and Two Kettle) bands of the Tetonwan Oyate (People of the Prairie), which is also named the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation.
Dawn E. was introduced to her love of photography when she was a youth and gifted her first nikon film camera while working in her community during the WoLakota Yukini Wicoti Tipi Camp in 1996. Dawn E. is inspired by portrait, landscape and documentary photography. She currently resides on the Wakpa Was’te’ Lakota Makoce’ (Cheyenne River Lands) with her Tióšpaye (family) promoting and collaborating on photo projects encouraging Indigenous Lakota wellness, food sovereignty, Lakota language and Lakota kinship/values.
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