Native American Culture
Films that combine documentary and poetics.
Wordplay as dissent in Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas
I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Tommy Pico’s IRL searches the catacombs of history and hashtags of today to create what can’t be salvaged.
“I’m a nontraditionalist being a traditionalist creating nontraditional art, which means that I’m just making art.”
“It’s the trickster element that exists throughout Ojibway storytelling and history, engaging both the sacred and the profane, turning things upside down and looking at them from a fresh perspective.”
“I’m the kind of guy that’s trying to get people to work together and make the Earth green.”
I met Jimmie Durham the day after the opening of his retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in February of 2009.
Mother saw it first, over by the teepee. “See,” she said, regarding us: sisters, offspring, preeners for love.
There is a curse upon the adventurers and mendicants, second sons of the aristocracy and would-be-sovereigns of their own destiny who sailed for the New World. Read about it in this review of The Leaves of Fate by George Robert Minkoff.
The mythology around Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 film The Exiles is better known than the film itself.
The stories our parents tell answer none of our questions.
Poet Simon Ortiz and Tribal Councilman Petuuche Gilbert on Indian country—the Acoma Pueblo—memory, history, and colonialism.
American poet Yusef Komunyakaa and Irish poet Paul Muldoon talk of T. S. Eliot and racism, poetry and music, Native Americans and the self—as a writer and a reader—in a culture that is as global as it is specific.
Rilla Askew’s first novel, The Mercy Seat, stems from her family’s stories of the migration west to Oklahoma. This novel tracks the legacy of that journey: the violence, the clash of native and European cultures and the pioneers.