Indigenous Art and Material Culture for Adults, from the Multcolib Indigenous TeamLike this list

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• Bead Talk

  Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics From the Flatlands

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  Editors Carmen Robertson (Scots Lakota), Judy Anderson (Nêhiyaw Cree), and Katherine Boyer (Métis/Settler) gather conversations, interviews, essays, and reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists, academics, and curators to illustrate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jeremy Frey

  Woven

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  Accompanies the first major traveling exhibition of work by award-winning Indigenous basket maker Jeremy Frey (Passamaquoddy). In addition to images of Frey's work, it includes essays from a variety of perspectives about Frey's style, contributions,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-being

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  Discusses the healing possibilities of Indigenous works of art, literature, film, and music from a diversity of Indigenous peoples and arts traditions, and how Indigenous knowledges can inform an approach to health as a wider set of relations that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast

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  This edited volume of essays discuss Northwest Coast indigenous Art history, with a focus on bringing forward voices that uphold Indigenous priorities, engage with past and ongoing effects of settler colonialism, and advocate for practices for more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Indigenous Present

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  Edited by Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee descent), this book shares examples of works by Indigenous contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects, writers, photographers, and designers from across Turtle…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Basic Guide to Northwest Coast Formline Art

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  Published by Sealaska Heritage Institute, a Native nonprofit founded in 1980 to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska, this book is a guide for interpreting Northwest Coast formline art which is integral to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Our Hands

  Native Photography, 1890 to Now

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  An exhibition catalog for an exhibition of the same name which was displayed at the Minneapolis Institution of Art. It includes works by First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native American photographers accompanied by research that analyzes their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

  Memory Map

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  This retrospective brings together nearly five decades of Smith’s (Confederated Salish, Kootenai) drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures. It provides new ways to consider contemporary Native American art, and shows how Smith has led and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Curve!

  Women Carvers on the Northwest Coast

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  Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Audain Art Museum in British Columbia. The exhibition catalog includes an eighty-year overview of wood and argillite carving by Indigenous women artists on the Northwest Coast along…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Returning Home

  Diné Creative Works From the Intermountain Indian School

  King, Farina,

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  Features and contextualizes the creative works of Diné (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, revealing ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Joe Feddersen

  Earth, Water, Sky

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  Accompanying the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist's work, this book showcases Feddersen's (Okanogan, Confederated Tribes of the Colville) art and examines his four-decade career as an Indigenous artist working in the Pacific…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art of Making

  Rediscovering the Blackfoot Legacy. Volume One

  Tailfeathers, Jared,

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  Tailfeathers (Kainai) shares how he explores his Indigenous heritage and hones his art and music through hands-on, land-based activities.

• As We See It

  Conversations With Native American Photographers

  Fricke, Suzanne Newman,

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  Explores the work and careers of ten contemporary Native American photographers, presents dialogues in which the artists share their unique perspectives about the history and current state of photography, and includes an overview of each…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Toi Te Mana

  An Indigenous History of Māori Art

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  A volume with examples of a wide field of Māori art practices. Discussing art periods from the arrival of Pacific voyagers eight hundred years ago to the contemporary artists working around the world today, it includes breakout texts focusing on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreaming Our Futures

  Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers

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  Learn about twenty-nine Dakota and Ojibwe Indigenous painters, in their own words and Indigenous languages too. Features large photos of work by each painter. Enjoy the self-expression by and for Indigenous people through storytelling and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Early Days

  Indigenous Art From the McMichael

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  Presents more than seventy voices illuminating the rich array of Indigenous art held by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and discusses the emergence and increasing participation of many Indigenous artists in the contemporary art world.

• The Land Carries Our Ancestors

  Contemporary Art by Native Americans

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  Curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish, Kootenai), this exhibition brings together works by an intergenerational group of nearly 50 living Native artists from across the United States. Their powerful expressions reflect the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sînapân Kîskasâkâs

  a Guide to Making Contemporary-style Métis Ribbon Skirts

  Johnson, Bonny,

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  This title shares a method to make a four-panel, contemporary style of Métis ribbon skirt. It also provides the historical context of ribbon skirts for Métis women.

• Hearts of Our People

  Native Women Artists

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  Explores the artistic achievements of Indigenous women and their rightful place in the art world. It includes works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital arts.

• Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines

  Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing

  Johnston, Hovak,

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  When Johnston (Inuk) heard that the last Inuk woman traditionally tattooed had died, she set out to tattoo herself in tribute to this custom and learn how to tattoo others. Collected in this book are photos and stories from more than two dozen women…Read moreRead more of this annotation