N. Ninth Street Bicentennial Bison – Celebrating the Past, Looking to the Future
Artists: Linda Vanderkolk, Sunny Miller at their Bicentennial Bison unveiling, 9th & Main, Lafayette. May 5 2016. Photo by Charles Jenks
Artists Sunny Miller and Linda Vanderkolk’s, bison will be displayed on North 9th Street Road in front of Undercover Storage. Miller and Vanderkolk took a “native” approach for their theme and went with the Miami Tribe name Lenaswa meaning Bison. The Miami Tribe extended their cultural roots deep into the soil of the Wabash River Valley, hunting, cultivating, fishing, cooking, building, trading and sharing wisdom to sustain their communities.
via Indiana Bicentennial Tippecanoe County committee
The Bison-tennial Bison project was organized by Indiana Association of United Ways (IaUW), statewide, in partnership with the Indiana Bicentennial Commission. This officially endorsed legacy project celebrated Indiana’s rich and diverse history and unique features. The bison are 5-foot-tall by 8-foot-long fiberglass bison on 2-foot-bases and will be displayed throughout 2016, Indiana’s Bicentennial year. Many of the bison highlighted will be along the Bicentennial Torch Relay route, October 12, 2016, in Tippecanoe County.
