The Swig Company Presents: Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project at the Mills Building

October 15, 2025

The Swig Company is proud to present Re-Discovering Native America: Stories in Motion with The Red Road Project, a compelling photo-docuseries installed at The Mills Building. This exhibition, which runs now until January 8, 2026, highlights inspiring stories of present-day Native American individuals and communities, providing a platform for them to share their past, present, and future in their own voices — a perspective too often excluded from the historical record.

Featuring 64 photographs Re-Discovering Native America explores contemporary narratives of Indigenous communities across the United States. This is a nationally traveling exhibition organized by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA.

The exhibition is the result of more than a decade of work by multicultural artist duo Danielle SeeWalker (Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota) and Carlotta Cardana, founders of The Red Road Project. Since 2013, the artists have documented Native stories that speak to themes of Language, Land Connection, Reservation Life, Urban Natives, Two Worlds, Activism, and 7th Generation. Their intention: to redirect the narrative toward an accurate and insightful representation of contemporary Native America, while reclaiming language and stories lost to stereotypes and erasure.

In February 2024, The Red Road Project conducted a residency in the Bay Area, gathering new photographs and stories of Indigenous communities based in Northern California. These works, alongside national stories collected since 2013, are featured in this installation at The Mills Building.

Through this ongoing series, The Red Road Project illustrates how Native American tribes and nations have endured and resisted centuries of cultural suppression, while powerfully expressing the resilience, revitalization, and continuity of Indigenous life today.

About The Red Road Project: Founded in 2013 by Danielle SeeWalker (Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota) and Italian photographer Carlotta Cardana, The Red Road Project is an ongoing photo-documentary series dedicated to amplifying the voices of Native American individuals and communities who are enacting positive change and carrying cultural traditions forward for future generations.

About The Swig Company: The Swig Company, LLC is a privately owned, San Francisco-based real estate operator with an 89-year history of investment, development, partnership and management of commercial real estate properties in major U.S. markets. Founded by Benjamin H. Swig in 1936, The Swig Company is guided by a long-term investment perspective that has proven adept at stewarding investors safely through multiple market cycles. The company’s vertically integrated operational platform, which includes investment, asset and property management, and leasing expertise, uses flexibility, generational thinking and sensitivity to sustainable practices to stay at the forefront of emerging trends in the commercial real estate industry.  For more information, visit: www.swigco.com.