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Can We Find Our Way to Indigenous Joy?
As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Brian Johnson explores the decolonial practices of Indigenous and Native American poster designers.
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Designing a History of Indigenous Graphic Artists
I hear students and friends alike ask where are our books and documentation? Where can I see our Native American design history?
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A True and Exact History of Queer Indigenous Sovereignty
Miss Chief, artist Kent Monkman’s alter ego, narrates the story of Turtle Island not as a settler allegory but from the perspective of the land itself.
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River Garza Shows Us What a True Land Acknowledgment Looks Like
The artist’s “landscape” paintings juxtapose imagery from Tongva culture with the architecture that was built over it, asserting an ongoing Indigenous presence.
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A Shameful US History Told Through Ledger Drawings
In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride.
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Remembering Indigenous Artist and Organizer Klee Benally
The Diné filmmaker, musician, and activist whose work centered land rights, Indigenous liberation, and climate justice died in December at the age of 48.
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Caroline Monnet’s Indigenous Worldbuilding
From feature films to installations, the multidisciplinary artist explores the hybridity of identity and the unremitting impacts of colonization in North America.
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Carmen Selam’s Debut Comic Is Self-Love Medicine
In the limited-edition risograph comic Rezbians, Selam shares a solution for the scarcity of queer Indigenous representation in pop culture.
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Alan Michelson’s Place-Keeping Art
For almost three decades, Alan Michelson has attended to place, histories, and futures, and the lived realities of Indigenous peoples in North America.
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The Native Art Market Returns to New York City
The National Museum of the American Indian has hosted the event since 2005, attracting Native artists from across the country.
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New York School Will Offer Minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Professor and Cherokee Nation citizen Joseph Pierce will lead the cross-departmental, interdisciplinary initiative at Stony Brook University.
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Jeremy Dennis Makes a Farce of White Guilt
Dennis’s exaggerated scenarios compel non-Indigenous viewers to confront racial dynamics that many people in the images choose not to see.