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MISSION — Acosia Red Elk of Mission has had a busy year, and it looks to stay that way.

Not that last year was slow. Red Elk participated in the “We Are the Land” public art project in Portland. Her mural-sized portrait graces a wall at Oregon Museum of Science and industry.

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Portrait of Acosia Red Elk created Dec. 1, 2022 by Josue Rivas of Portland, founder of Indigena, for a mural at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in his “We Are the Land” public art exhibit around the city. 

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Champion jingle dancer Acosia Red Elk, center, poses on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, outside State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona, with members of her troupe, Indigenous Enterprise, other dancers and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas, one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress.

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Acosia Red Elk of Mission dances Feb. 6, 2023, in Footprint Center, Phoenix, with Swoop, the Philadelphia Eagles mascot.

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