Indians playing Indian : multiculturalism and contemporary indigenous art in North America

238 Pages·2015·1.08 MB·English

by  Siebert

IndIans
PlayIng
IndIan

IndIans
PlayIng
IndIan
Multiculturalism and Contemporary
Indigenous Art in North America
Monika siebert
The University of Ala bama Press
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Cover photograph: Teri greeves, We Gave Two Horses for Our Son, (2007);
courtesy of the Heard Museum, Craig smith photo
Cover design: gary gore
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library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data
siebert, Monika, 1965–
Indians playing Indian : multiculturalism and contemporary indigenous art in north
america / Monika siebert.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
IsBn 978-0-8173-1855-0 (hardback) — IsBn 978-0-8173-8798-3 (ebook)
1. Indian arts—north america. 2. arts and society—United states. 3. arts and
society—Canada. 4. Indians of north america—Intellectual life. 5. Indians of north
america—Canada—Intellectual life. 6. United states—Ethnic relations. 7. Canada—
Ethnic relations. 8. Multiculturalism—United states. 9. Multiculturalism—Canada.
10. Recognition (Philosophy)—social aspects—north america. I. Title.
E98.a73s54 2015
704.03’97—dc23
2014023735
To my parents,
Janina and Henryk siebert
and
Barbara and Harald Paumgarten

Contents
list of Figures ix
acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Indigeneity and Multicultural Misrecognition 1
1. Indigeneity and the dialectic of Recognition at the national Museum of
the ameri can Indian 22
2. Atanarjuat and the Ideological Work of Indigenous Filmmaking 62
3. Palimpsestic Images: Contemporary ameri can Indian digital Fine art
and the Ethnographic Photo archive 92
4. Of Turtles, snakes, Bones, and Precious stones: Jimmie durham’s Indices
of Indigeneity 126
5. Fictions of the gruesome authentic in leanne Howe’s Shell Shaker 158
Conclusion: Unsettling Misrecognition 179
notes 185
Works Cited 207
Index 217

Figures
3.1. Damn! I Keep Dreaming of Three Cherries!, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie,
1998 93
3.2. Kainawa, Pamela shields, 1997 93
3.3. Alana Spencer and Baby Tecellah, dugan aguilar, 1995 94
3.4. The Visit, arthur amiotte, 1995 99
3.5. Pomo Dancers Preparing to Dance at Chaw’se, dugan aguilar, 1995 115
4.1. Self- Portrait, Jimmie durham, 1987 134
4.2. She Rose from Her Warm Bed, Jimmie durham, 1987 136
4.3. Red Turtle, Jimmie durham, 1991 139
4.4. Not Joseph Beuys’ Coyote, Jimmie durham, 1990 143
4.5. Untitled, Jimmie durham, 1992 147
4.6. The Banks of the Ohio, Jimmie durham, 1992 149
4.7. La Malinche, Jimmie durham, 1988–91 155
4.8. Pocahontas and the Little Carpenter in Lon don, Jimmie durham,
1988 156