Dana Claxton

personal-info

known-for

Directing

gender

Female

birthday

1959-01-01

place-of-birth

Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada

also-known-as

biography

Dana Claxton (born 1959) is a Hunkpapa Lakota filmmaker, photographer, and performance artist. Her work looks at stereotypes, historical context, and gender studies of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, specifically those of the First Nations. In 2007, she was awarded an Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art.