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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 to shine light on contemporary Indigenous arts as opposed to 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.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by 
Braiding Sweetgrass by 
When My Brother Was an Aztec by 
Ceremony by 
In Mad Love and War by 
Blood Quantum
Rumble : the Indians who rocked the world
Atanarjuat The fast runner
Once Were Warriors
Smoke SignalsJennifer 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 and Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University
Henrietta Mann, is Cheyenne and 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
Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/present/future
Action Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art
Connective Tissue
Manifestations
Shared Visions by 
Fritz Scholder
Wendy Red Star
Jeffrey Gibson
Making History by 
Mapping Modernisms
Art for an Undivided Earth by 
Visualities : Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art by 
Art of Native America
Native American Art: MFA Highlights
Spirit of Native America by A profile interview video of artist and designer Bunky Echo-Hawk on PBS American Masters Series
You can watch this movie Sweetheart Dancers and much more on our streaming service Kanopy available via our database list.
Read current issues of Native Max Magazine via Flipster.
Current and past issues of Native American Art magazine can be read via Flipster, which you can access via our database list.
This Fall 2020 issue of Aperture magazine is available in Flipster, an application for reading magazines you can access via our database list linked in the image.
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