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October 13, 2024 – April 12, 2025 Celebrating the innovative vision of Hopi carver Mavasta Honyouti, Carved Stories presents thirty of his more recent works. The centerpiece of his ﬁrst solo exhibition is a new series of sixteen panels linked to the publication Coming Home.

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DEPARTMENTS

FEATURES

Recent Developments By Staci Golar and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)

Seven Directions By George Growingthunder (Nakoda/Dakota)

Spotlight | Chief-of-All-Women Pole By Kariel Galbraith (Tlingit)

Art+Lit | Lily H. Tuzroyluke: Inupiaq/Tlingit/Nisga'a Novelist By Angela Startz (Inupiaq, Northern Slope)

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Calendar

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The Path to Venice: Originators 40 and Leaders Bring Native American Art to the Biennale By Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation) 46

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Lester Harragarra: 54 Otoe-Missouria/Kiowa Photographer By Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa) 62

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Lena Boone (Zuni/ 104 Cheyenne-Arapaho, 1946–2024) By Evalena, Leland, and Marcella Boone (all Zuni/Cheyenne-Arapaho) Rance Hood 105 (Comanche, 1941–2024) By Jason Asenap (Comanche/Muscogee)

Lester Harragarra: Context By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)

Daniel HorseChief: Cherokee Nation/Pawnee Painter and Sculptor By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD

Linda Infante Lyons: 68 Alutiiq Painter By Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq) 68

Alex Janvier (Denesuline/ 106 Saulteaux, 1935–2024) By America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) Bruce LaFountain (Turtle 107 Mountain Chippewa, 1961–2024) By Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke), and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) Jesse Monongya (Diné, 1952–2024) By Christy Hanson (Diné)

Of the Twig Eater: The Quiet Revival of Moosehair Embroidery By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD

ARTIST PROFILES

MEMORIALS Ron Anderson (Choctaw Nation/Chickasaw, 1938–2024) By Joan Frederick

The Impact of American Indian Black-and-White Photography By Matt Jarvis (Osage)

REVIEWS Exhibition Reviews Reports Book Reviews

Native Puppetry Has Arrived By Sheila Regan

Gabriela Morac: Zapoteca Printmaker and Painter By Staci Golar

cover Linda Infante Lyons (Alutiiq), Aana (Mother), 2022, oil on panel, 30 × 30 in., collection of the Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage. Image courtesy of the artist.

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This painting is installed in the Alaska Native Medical Center’s Labor and Delivery wing.

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Publishing Editor: America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) Literary Editor: Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD (Euro-Canadian) Contributing Editor: Stacy Pratt, PhD (Mvskoke) Advertising Representatives: Barbara Harjo and Nicole Emmons (Citizen Potawatomi) Circulation Manager: Amy D. Bergseth, PhD Copy Editors: Rosa Cays (Chicana) and Angela C. Villa (Chicana) Proofreaders: Staci Golar, Christy Hanson (Diné), and Angela C. Villa (Chicana) with assistance from Andrea L. Ferber, PhD Layout and Design: America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) and Corey Yazzie (Diné) Social Media: Staci Golar, America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), and Jackie Sevier (Northern Arapaho) Interns: Liam Hart and Abby Mikalauskas

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EDITOR’S GREETING

N 1973, during the Wounded Knee Occupation, activist Vernon Bellecourt (White Earth Ojibwe, 1931–2007) traveled to Italy and claimed the country on behalf of the Ojibwe people. In a successful example of political theater, Belcourt used humor and historical references to call attention to the current issues that American Indians faced. Specifically, he was fundraising to support the Native activists at Wounded Knee. This was part of a larger diplomatic trip through Europe, and The New York Times quoted him saying, “We have gained a hell of a lot of support throughout Europe and many people are looking to the American Indian Movement for leadership.”1 My dad told me about Bellecourt’s claiming of Italy. Later, after I consulted with Ojibwe friends, his story sparked this painting, an imagining of what Bellecourt’s map might look like. I’m calling attention to his action, not trying to speak on his behalf. The fact that Italy is a free-floating island is a clue that this is imaginary and not an attempt at historical veracity. What is historical is the fact that Native people have traveled widely and engaged with global societies. In 2005 James Luna (Puyukitchum/Ipai/Mexican-American, 1950–2018) performed and installed his Emendatio in Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Italy. Through his multifaceted artwork, he highlighted the story of Pablo Tac (Luiseño, ca. 1822– 1841), a Catholic convert who traveled to Rome in 1834 to study for the priesthood, leaving drawings and a manuscript, an early account of Indigenous life at Mission San Luis Rey, before succumbing to smallpox at the age of 19. In this issue, Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation) discusses the work of Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Apache) and her fellow scholars and artists who formed the Native American Arts Alliance (NA3) and organized collateral events during the Venice Biennale. These events led to larger projects and paved the way for the triumphant solo exhibition, the space in which to place me, with Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Choctaw/

above America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), Italy Is Discovered and Claimed for the Ojibwe Nation, 2006, watercolor and gouache on paper, 14 × 11 in. Photo: Ann Sherman. Image courtesy of the artist.

Cherokee). If there’s an ongoing theme to First American Art Magazine, it’s the understanding that we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. And, in turn, we need to lift up those who come after us. My great-grandmother had the theory that Native people study and adopt what is most useful from the non-Native world. This might include certain embroidery techniques from Ursuline Nuns for moosehair, photography, or puppetry. We benefit from these many collaborations,

and it falls upon us to strive so that future generations can experience the wonders we experience despite present-day challenges like moose threatened by warming temperatures and parasites or the city of Venice vulnerable to rising seawater and storms. All the actions we take today can have massive ramifications for the future. Indigenous artists in particular encourage us all not to give into despair but to envision the future as a beautiful place filled with possibility. —America Meredith (Cherokee Nation)

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

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MUSEUMS

ART FAIRS

The MUSEUM OF INDIAN ARTS AND CULTURE appointed Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota) to serve as its executive director. Means had been serving as interim director for eight months. She was the first Native American director of the Center for Contemporary Arts and also worked for First Peoples Fund, Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She earned her master’s degree in museum studies from Marist College/ Instituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Italy.

Heather Igloliorte (Inuk) will curate the 2025 BONAVISTA BIENNALE, an innovative, rural-based, public art event that occurs every two years on Newfoundland’s Bonavista Peninsula.

The NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART named Orlando Hernández Ying as the Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas. This is the first permanent curatorial role at the museum dedicated to an expanded look at the arts of North, Central, and South America. Hernández Ying was previously a curatorial associate, fellow, and intern at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York and the

above Danyelle Means (Oglala Lakota), director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. below Orlando Hernández Ying, curator at the New Orleans Museum of Arts.

Garth Greenan Gallery in New York presented a selection of works by several Indigenous artists including Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937–2005), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai/Métis/Shoshone), and Emmi Whitehorse (Navajo) for the 2024 edition of ART BASEL.

ART SHOWS The Washington State Historical Society recently hosted the 19th annual IN THE SPIRIT CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ARTS in Tacoma. Sydney Akagi (Tlingit) received Best of Show for her Chilkat Killer Whale Tunic. Special award winners included Stephan Smith (Quinault/ Makah), Honoring the Ancestors; Megan

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