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Indigenous Art Forms
In this guide you will find a range of resources including videos, articles, books, and links to external archives, institutions and websites that will introduce you to Indigenous artists and art history about Indigenous art and artists of North America. The art historical lens around Indigenous arts is highly contested as many Indigenous histories, arts, and cultural practices for many years were siloed to anthropological fields. For decades now, Native scholars and others have pushed forward and shine light on contemporary Indigenous arts as opposed to a type of art that only exists in the past. The resources here are part of our growing collection of materials around Indigenous arts and art historical work, but also listed are local and national links to other institutions doing important and relevant cultural work. Feel free to e-mail us with any other suggestions you'd like to add to this guide.
CONTEMPORARY BOOKS OF NOTE
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Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/present/futurePublication Date: 2020 -
Action Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native ArtPublication Date: 2020 -
Connective TissuePublication Date: 2017 -
ManifestationsPublication Date: 2012 -
Shared Visions by Publication Date: 1993
Books pre-1990s
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Spirit of Native America by Publication Date: 1989
UMBRELLA NATIVE CATALOGUES
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Art of Native AmericaPublication Date: 2018A fresh exploration of Native American art that positions the work within the broader context of North American art history. The insightful texts provide a new evaluation of the art, culture, and daily life of numerous North American tribes, including Acoma, Apache, Cheyenne, Creek, Crow, Hopi-Twea, Kiowa, Lakota, Pomo, Seneca, Seminole, Tlingit, and Zuni, among others. -
Native American Art: MFA HighlightsPublication Date: 2010Covering a diversity of objects from across the North American continent--from the eastern and southern Woodlands to the Northwest Pacific Coast, with a particular emphasis on the Southwest--this latest volume in the MFA Highlights series demonstrates the vast richness of American Indian art.
DVDs
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Blood QuantumPublication Date: 2019 -
Rumble : the Indians who rocked the worldPublication Date: 2017 -
Atanarjuat The fast runnerPublication Date: 2002 -
Once Were WarriorsPublication Date: 2002 -
Smoke SignalsPublication Date: 1998
Native Scholars
Jennifer Nez Dennetdale is the first-ever Diné/Navajo to earn a Ph.D. in history. She is Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and teaches courses in Critical Indigenous Studies, Indigenous gender and sexuality, Indigenous feminisms and gender, and Navajo Studies.
Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.
Philip J. Deloria, Yankton Dakota
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University
Henrietta Mann, Cheyenne
Professor Emerita of Native American Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula and Montana State University, Bozeman and Founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College
videos
TED Talk on The exclusion of Native American art from the art world by Jeffrey Gibson
Film 'When you're lost in the rain' by artist Sky Hopinka
Artist Will Wilson on Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange for Crystal Bridges Museum
Lecture on Contemporary Indigenous Art in a Global Context from the Whitney
EBOOKS
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Making History by Publication Date: 2020 -
Mapping ModernismsPublication Date: 2019 -
Art for an Undivided Earth by Publication Date: 2017 -
Visualities by Publication Date: 2011
Aperture Fall 2020 Issue
Single Artist Monographs & Exhibition Catalogues
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Fritz ScholderPublication Date: 1982 -
Jeffrey GibsonPublication Date: 2013 -
Wendy Red StarPublication Date: 2019
fiction/poetry/prose
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Publication Date: 2015 -
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Publication Date: 2012 -
Ceremony by Publication Date: 2006 -
In Mad Love and War by Publication Date: 1990
Other resources, archives, podcasts, organizations etc.
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