Royce K. Young Wolf, is a Hidatsa, Mandan, and Eastern Shoshone mother, language and culture activist, curator, and artist. She is a member of the Ih-dhi-shu-gah (Wide Ridge) Clan and is a child of the Ah-puh-gah-whi-gah (Low Cap) Clan. She is a practitioner and advocate of the arts through her cultural works, photography, compositions, and culturally responsive collection stewardship. Her work is inspired by her educational experiences of being a fourth-generation Indian boarding school survivor. Questions from that time influenced her early career shift from film and media to focus on cultural and language preservation through an M.A. in Native American Studies and a Ph.D. in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology. She continues to prioritize work specializing in Indigenous language and culture revitalization, survivance, and relationship (re)making. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow in Native American Art and Curation and Presidential Visiting fellow at Yale University. She is currently the inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American and Indigenous Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Collection Manager of the Native North American Collections at the Yale Peabody Museum.
Royce K. Young Wolf, PhD
