Indigenous North America - ANTH203

"An autonomous group of Indigenous chefs, activists, herbalists, seed, and knowledge keepers, the I-Collective strives to open a dialogue and create a new narrative that highlights not only historical Indigenous contributions, but also promotes our community's resilience and innovations in gastronomy, agriculture, the arts, and society at large."

"Our mission is to promote Indigenous foodways education and facilitate Indigenous food access."

Big Wind Carpenter is a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe and a "Queer Indigenous Organizer, Artist, & Abolitionist."

"Rosalyn is an award winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist."

"Greg A. Robinson is a member of the Chinook Nation located in Bay Center, Washington... Robinson produces a variety of work in the style of the Chinookan peoples of the middle to lower Columbia River and Willapa Bay."

"One of the major voices in Chicana literature, poet Lorna Dee Cervantes’s writing evokes and explores cultural difference—between Mexican, Anglo, Native American, and African American lives—as well as the divides of gender and economics."

"George Alexander II (Aka. Ofuskie) is a Muskogee-Creek artist that blends surrealist symbolism with Indigenous values and a visionary humanitarian outlook."

"An enrolled member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe, Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society."

"Hotevilla Glassworks is the first and only Hopi owned working glass blowing studio. In addition to the unique Hopi glass artistry of Ramson Lomatewama, the showroom features Hopi katsina dolls, Third Mesa basketry, and Ramson’s sterling silver wire jewelry."

"Ahkwayaonhkeh is the very first Wendat artist-run centre, located on the Nionwentsïo. Its mission is to promote, develop and disseminate current Wendat artistic practices."

"Inaugurated in 2008, the Huron-Wendat Museum is a vital institution of the Nation Council, dedicated to preserving and promoting its heritage."

"SINM proudly houses an extensive collection of Hodinöhsö:ni’ historical and traditionally designed decorative and every-day-use items and archaeological artifacts."

"Lenape Center is a nonprofit organization fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts. For over thirteen years, our work has been the creation and development of exhibitions, public art, symposia, music, opera, theater, education (workshops, lectures, curricula)."

"Lorne Alexander Julien is a proud Mi’kmaq artist and member of Millbrook First Nation, near Truro, Nova Scotia, where he grew up."

"Tony Abeyta is a contemporary Navajo (Diné) artist from Gallup, New Mexico. He is most well known for mixed media paintings and oil landscapes of the American southwest."

"3NOLANS was co-founded in 2013 by Ted Nolan, Brandon Nolan, and Jordan Nolan as a way to offer a hockey skills development camp for First Nation youth in First Nation communities across Canada."

"Fawn Douglas is an Indigenous American artivist, mother, and enrolled member of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe... Within her art-making, she tells stories in order to remember the past and to ensure the stories of Indigenous peoples are heard in the present."

"Shawnee/Cayuga poet and indigenous activist Barney Bush was born in Herod, Illinois. He earned a BA at Fort Lewis College and an MA in English and fine arts at the University of Idaho. Bush took nature, family, and his Native American heritage as subject matter."

"By reconnecting Native Americans with traditional foodways to improve health, promoting economic development, establishing food sovereignty, and preserving tribal history and culture across artificial colonial boundaries, and through development of a new food system based around cultivation and incorporation of healthy, wild, culturally appropriate, traditional ingredients and agriculture, Chef Sherman is empowering Native people to use the power of their history and culture to counter the multigenerational impacts of colonialism and dispossession, and to combat systematic cultural genocide."

"Singletary’s art has become synonymous with the relationship between Tlingit culture and fine art. His glass sculptures deal with themes of Tlingit mythology and traditional designs, while also using music to shape his contemporary perspective of Native culture."

"Tlingit Master Artist/Carver Israel Shotridge was born and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska. He is a member of the Bear (Teikweidee) Clan of the Tongass (Taantakwan) Tribe... For over 35 years Shotridge has been creating traditional and contemporary artworks for public, private and corporate Native art collections world wide."