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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.
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Alanis Obomsawin Wants the Children to Know
At the center of the acclaimed Abenaki filmmaker’s practice is her effort to counter White, colonialist versions of history.
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Peter B. Jones Sculpts Truth to Power
The Onondaga artist has a propensity for cultural criticism — especially on the issues affecting Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous peoples, past and present.
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Indigenous Groups Rally Against Lithium Extraction in Argentina
Murals, flags, performance, and other artistic expressions define the ongoing struggle to protect lands threatened by rampant extraction of the so-called “white gold.”
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The Trailblazing History of an Indigenous Art Collective
Launched in 1962, the Micmac Indian Craftsmen collective designed notecards, tapestries, porcelain, and other objects that gained a worldwide audience.
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Two Native Artists Want to Reclaim Their Landscapes and Textiles
Steven J. Yazzie and Patrick Dean Hubbell dismantle blatant distillations of Native visuality for profit that continue to commit and perpetrate harm against Indigenous artists and communities.
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Inuit Culture Comes to Life in Shuvinai Ashoona's Drawings
In a new show in New York City, Ashoona’s memory-based compositions infuse truth coupled with whimsy surrounding life in the Arctic.
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Native Artists Fear Proposed Changes to Indian Arts and Crafts Act
Many worry that the broad language of the new changes will be abused by corporate manufacturers and undermine legal protections.