AMPKWA: munk łush nsayka shawash tilixam

Описание: An art exhibition at Chemeketa Community College is asking viewers to slow down and remember and to honor those who are still missing in Amanda Freeman’s exhibition "AMPKWA: munk łush nsayka shawash tilixam." This photography exhibition honors Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the families who continue to wait, search, and remember their loved ones.

"This exhibit didn't start as a gallery idea. It didn't start out as a project proposal, or concept statement,” Freeman said. “It started as a question I kept asking myself over and over..."What do I have that I can use right now to do something that really matters?"

Freeman, a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, with Umatilla and Umpqua descent, is the founder and chair of Ampkwa Advocacy, the only nonprofit dedicated to Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in Oregon.

The exhibit includes nearly three dozen photographs and portraits of Indigenous people who lost a relative or have suffered with addiction or domestic violence.

"AMPKWA: munk łush nsayka shawash tilixam," is available for viewing at the Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery through Feb. 6, 2026. Community members and allies are invited to not just to look, but to sit with what remains unresolved.

Video by: Jarrette Werk, Underscore Native News