Alaska Native Artistic Reclamation and the Persistence of Indigenous Aesthetics

This chapter shares Jackinsky-Sethi’s research on Alaska Native artistic revitalization and reflects on her position as an Indigenous art historian. She argues that art history has much to gain by bringing in the voices and perspectives of Indigenous art historians whose work helps to record, share, and celebrate the artistic accomplishments of their communities in a way that is relevant to those communities. Jackinsky-Sethi argues that the current fluorescence of Alaska Native artistic practices is evidence of the persistence of Indigenous aesthetic practices in the face of colonization.