STATEMENT OF CREATION

Central Valley Yokut

Savannah Morales is a 24-year-old Tachi Yokuts (mudduck) woman, who was raised on the Santa Rosa Rancheria. Savannah is a mixed-ethnicity multi-medium artist, whose art can be seen through California's San Joaquin Valley and out in to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Savannah formerly served as the Tachi Yokut Youth Council President, 2019- 2020 , in Helping Our Own People Succeed (H.O.O.P.S.). Morales has had her Polaroid photographs shown at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA). Received her diploma at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA); in Santa Fe, New Mexico. With her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis on Photography.

TULARE LAKE, MUD DUCK.