Visualizing genocide : Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums

Chavez, Yve (editor.). Mithlo, Nancy Marie (editor.). University of Arizona Press (issuing body.).

Summary: "Visualizing Genocide engages the often sparse and biased discourses of genocidal violence against Indigenous communities documented in exhibits, archives, and museums. Essayists and artists from a range of disciplines identify how Native knowledge can be effectively incorporated into memory spaces"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780816542307 (softcover)
Physical Description: print
viii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: the unknowable known past / Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Dialogue with sons of the sun / Richard Ray Whitman -- Part I. Reclaiming space through presence making -- 1. Remembering our ancestors: photographing Mission San Gabriel's cemetery / Yve Chavez -- 2. The aftermath: visualizing genocide / Stephen Gilchrist -- 3. Sámi Dáiddamusea is not a metaphor / Jérémie McGowan and Anne Mae Olli -- 4. Maria Hupfield's Nine years towards the sun: reflections on Survival and Other Acts of Defiance in performative art practice / Michelle Lanteri -- Part II. Control of historical resources, reappropriation 5. Owning hate, owning hurt: the aesthetics of violence in American Indian contemporary art / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- 6. Translations/reanimations/presences: Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project and the remaking of Umo'ho' archives / Emily Voelker -- 7. Probing the surface: artist Chris Pappan's material and conceptual work with ledger art / Iris Colburn -- 8. Marwin Begaye: End of the trail as Native humor / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Part III. Embodiment and performance -- 9. Emily Arthur: final determinations: "Cherokee by blood" / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- 10. Dying to know you: critical insights from a case study of Indigenous representations in museums of the early republic / Ellen Fernandez-Sacco -- 11. Oklahome / T. Christopher Aplin and Nancy Marie Mithlo -- 12. Richard Ray Whitman: Street chiefs revisited / Nancy Marie Mithlo.