These prints are part of a larger body of work specifically about the Missouri River Watershed. They are a visual investigation of how water shapes our landscape in relation to the colonization history of the Midwest, and concerns about the American ideal of Manifest Destiny, ideals specifically represented by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In my work Lewis & Clark’s journey west along the Missouri River represents the start of forced reorganization of both the Indigenous peoples as well as the ecological environments of the West. I see this reorganization of the river system, it’s human and non-human inhabitants and the landscape itself, as the beginning of many of the ecological and environmental justice issues that we see today.