The land carries our ancestors : contemporary art by Native Americans

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The land carries our ancestors : contemporary art by Native Americans / Jaune Quick-to-See Smith ; Joy Harjo, heather ahtone, Shana Bushyhead Condill.

Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See, 1940- (author,, curator.). Harjo, Joy, (contributor.). Ahtone, Heather, (contributor.). Condill, Shana Bushyhead, (contributor.). National Gallery of Art (U.S.), (organizer,, host institution.). New Britain Museum of American Art, (host institution.).

Summary:

"Curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this exhibition brings together works by an intergenerational group of nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States. Their powerful expressions reflect the diversity of Native American individual, regional, and cultural identities. At the same time, these works share a worldview informed by thousands of years of reverence, study, and concern for the land. Through a variety of practices--including weaving, beadwork, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, performance, and video--these artists visualize Indigenous knowledge of land, landbase, landscape. Together, the works in The Land Carries Our Ancestors underscore the self-determination, survivance, and right to self-representation of Indigenous peoples."--From the National Gallery of Art's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9780691245454
ISBN: 0691245452
Physical Description: 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
Publisher: Washington, DC : National Gallery of Art ; [2023]
Manufacturer: Italy : Verona Libri
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

General Note:: "Exhibition dates: National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 22, 2023-January 15, 2024; New Britain Museum of American Art, April 18-September 15, 2024"--Colophon.

Designed by Deborah Littlejohn (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians descent); edited by Nancy Eickel; produced by Brad Ireland and Christina Wiginton.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (page 171) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Exhibiting artists (tribal affiliations are based on the information provided by each artist): George Alexander (Muscogee) -- Keri Ataumbi (Kiowa) -- Natalie Ball (Modoc/Klamath) -- Marwin Begaye (Diné) -- Frank Big Bear (Ojibwe, White Earth Nation) -- Julie Buffalohead (Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma) -- Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent) -- Raven Chacon (Diné) -- Gerald Clarke Jr. (Cahuilla Band of Indians) -- Melissa Cody (Navajo) -- Jim Denomie (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe, Ajijaak Clan) -- Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné) -- Duwawisioma (Victor Masayesva Jr.) (Hopi Tribe) -- Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath/Modoc) -- Joe Feddersen (Colville Confederated Tribes) -- Nicholas Galanin (Lingít/Unangax̂) and Merritt Johnson (Unaffiliated) -- Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians/Cherokee Nation) -- Teri Greeves (Kiowa) -- Raven Halfmoon (Caddo Nation) -- Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations) -- Luzene Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) -- John Hitchcock (Comanche/Kiowa/European descent) -- G. Peter Jemison (Seneca Nation of Indians, Heron Clan) -- Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk Nation) -- Linda King (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes) -- Athena LaTocha (KeWeenaw Bay Ojibwe/Standing Rock Lakota) -- James Lavadour (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Walla Walla) -- Linda Lomahaftewa (Hopi/Choctaw) -- George C. Longfish (Seneca/Tuscarora) -- Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara/Lakota)-- Brenda Mallory (Cherokee Nation) -- Mario Martinez (Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona) -- Melissa Melero-Moose (Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe) -- Jamie Okuma (La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians) -- Chris Pappan (Kanza/Lakota) -- Rose Powhatan (Pamunkey/Tauxenent descent) -- Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke) -- Eric-Paul Riege (Diné) -- Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) -- Diego Romero (Pueblo of Cochiti) -- Rose B. Simpson (Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico) -- Preston Singletary (Tlingit) -- Gail Tremblay [work by Gail Tremblay was not exhibited] (Onondaga/Mi'kmaq descent)-- Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma/European descent) -- Star WallowingBull (Ojibwe/Arapaho) -- Marie Watt (Seneca Nation of Indians/European descent) -- Emmi Whitehorse (Diné) -- Will Wilson (Diné) -- Steven Yazzie (Diné/Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico/European descent).

Foreword and acknowledgments / Kaywin Feldman, Director, National Gallery of Art -- Once the world was perfect / Joy Harjo, Muscogee (Creek) Nation -- Sky as place, land as body, landscape as spiritual compass / heather ahtone, Choctaw/Chickasaw Nation -- Land/landbase/landscape / Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation -- The dust on our feet / Shana Bushyhead Condill, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians -- Works of art -- Artist biographies -- Works in the exhibition.