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Posted inOpinion

You Cannot Give Thanks for What Is Stolen

Avatar photo by Joseph M. Pierce November 23, 2022November 23, 2022

American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.

Posted inNews

Harvard Admits Owning Hair Samples of 700 Native American Students

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu November 13, 2022November 13, 2022

The university said it will return the samples, some of which were used in research that directly or indirectly supported scientific racism.

Posted inFilm

This Thanksgiving, Don’t Forget the History of Native Bounties in the US

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

The documentary short Bounty and its accompanying website make a potent statement from the Penobscot Nation that they are still here.

Posted inNews

The First National Memorial to Native American Veterans

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

Indigenous people serve in the US Armed Services at a higher rate than any other group, but their contributions are often diminished. A new memorial in Washington, DC, hopes to change that.

Posted inArt

The Native Americans Whose Activism Made DC’s Football Team Change Its Name

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel August 25, 2020November 5, 2020

The National Museum of the American Indian will be hosting two screenings of the documentary More Than a Word alongside a conversation with activist Amanda Blackhorse, who took pro football to court.

Posted inArt

Wendy Red Star Is Teaching Children About the Crow Nation With Her Art

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick August 6, 2020November 29, 2021

“You don’t have to make things easy for them,” says Red Star about her new exhibition for children at MASS MoCA.

Posted inOpinion

Why Dior’s Appropriation of Native Identity to Sell Perfume Miserably Backfired

Avatar photo by Joseph M. Pierce September 6, 2019September 6, 2019

Footage from the perfume’s release party also featured white people dressed in sacred war bonnets dancing around tipis and belting out war whoops as spectators sipped champagne.

Posted inArt

Filming Native American Performance Through a Decolonized Lens

Avatar photo by Kealey Boyd May 11, 2018

In her three-channel video “Mother Drum,” Dara Friedman avoids many of the problematic patterns non-Native artists often fall into when making art about Native American communities.

Posted inArt

The Long and Toxic History of Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz February 2, 2018

An exhibition at the Wolfsonian-FIU tracks romantic and racist stereotypes of native cultures in European tobacco advertising from the 1880s to the 1940s.

The 28-foot-high Chief Wahoo logo from the Cleveland Indians' former home, Municipal Stadium, on permanent display at Western Reserve Historical Society (photo by Ralf Peter Reimann/Flickr)
Posted inIn Brief

Cleveland’s Major League Baseball Team Will Retire Racist “Chief Wahoo” Logo

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 30, 2018January 30, 2018

Though it will still appear on some merchandise sold in northeast Ohio and the Arizona city where the team holds its spring training.

Sam Durant's "Scaffold" (2012) mostly dismantled at the end of the day on Friday, with its wooden parts in a bin at left (photo by Sheila Regan/Hyperallergic)
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Dakota Elders Decide to Bury Sam Durant’s Controversial Sculpture

by Claire Voon September 5, 2017October 22, 2020

Dakota Elders have decided the fate of Sam Durant’s “Scaffold,” which is legally in their possession.

Posted inNews

Jimmie Durham Retrospective Reignites Debate Over His Claim of Native Ancestry

by Sheila Regan June 28, 2017June 29, 2017

Though he has both claimed to have and denied having Cherokee heritage, institutions often present Durham as a Native American artist.

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