NORTHERN PLAINS ARTIST
D. Joyce Kitson received her name from her great grandmother, Pehinsawin / Pȟehíŋ Šá Wiŋ, who was the first to "go to market" in the early 1900s as the Hunkpapha Lakhota Standing Rock tribe was entrenched on a reservation. D. Joyce honors her relative with her work with beads, porcupine and bird quills, and brain-tanned hides.
D. Joyce Kitson sells her work, but also continuously works to empower her Indigenous community, educate students in schools, apprentice women, and help everyone to grow their understanding of Northern Plains traditional arts locally in North and South Dakota, and throughout the world.
