Dawn Saunders Dahl, of European descent and Red River Métis ancestry (Ojibwe, Saulteaux, Chippewa) is gifted with a Iethka (Stoney) name. She maintains Studio 209 with the Artists of Elk Run in Canmore and holds positions at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Galerie Cite at La Cite Francophone in Edmonton, and as Curator of Indigenous Public Art for Adisoke, the Ottawa Public Library and National Library and Archives Joint Facility.