ABSTRACT
This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America.
This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, graduate-level curriculum development, and academic research. The contributors expand, create, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production, discussion, and writing of Indigenous art histories.
Bringing together scholars, curators, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history, critical museology, cultural studies, and curatorial practice, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based, embodied, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration, consultation, and mentorship.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
section Section I|64 pages
Sovereignty and Futurity
chapter 2|12 pages
Dancing Sovereignty
section Section II|67 pages
Kinship, Care, Relationality
chapter 10|12 pages
Balancing Curatorial Indigenous and Queer Belonging:
chapter 11|11 pages
Taking Good Care
chapter 12|11 pages
Betraying the Object
section Section III|82 pages
Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being
chapter 14|6 pages
miýikosiwin
chapter 19|10 pages
Inuit Research Methodologies
chapter 21|10 pages
There are No Metaphors
section Section IV|97 pages
Anti-colonial Practices
chapter 23|14 pages
An Ethic of Decolonial Questioning
chapter 25|9 pages
Decolonizing Representation
chapter 27|11 pages
Telling the Stories of Objects in Museum Collections
section Section V|71 pages
Stories, Living Knowledges, Continuity and Resurgence