Issue No. 46, Spring 2025

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Features

• The Artist Who Reconstructed Maya Blue
  by Mark Viales, 26–34
• Maya vs. Mayan
  by Mark Viales, 34
• Tlingit Button Blankets: Tailoring Cultural Change
  by Kariel Galbraith (Tlingit), 36–43
• To Weave with Grass: A Precious Wild Resource
  by Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi, PhD (Alutiiq), 44–49
• Riding the Waves of History: How Installation Art Reclaims and Indigenizes Space
  by Sarah Anne Stolte, 50–55

Artist Profiles

• Dakota Mace: Diné Interdisciplinary Artist
  by Heidi K. Brandow (Diné/Kānaka Maoli), 58–63
• Jared Nally: Myaamia Textile Artist
  by Christy Hanson (Diné), 64–69
• Melissa Peter-Paul: Mi’kmaw Quill Artist
  by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 70–75
• Jonathan Thunder: Red Lake Band Ojibwe Painter, Animator & Filmmaker
  by Sheila Regan, 76–81

Departments

• Recent Developments by Staci Golar and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 13–18
• Seven Directions | Hunter C. Old Elk (Apsáalooke/Yakama), 21–25
• Art+Literature
  • Eddie Chuculate: Muscogee/Cherokee Novelist & Journalist
    by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 102–104
  • Dan Beaver (Muscogee)
    by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 105

  

• Calendar compiled by Abby Mikalauskas, Staci Golar, and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 109–112

Reviews

Art Exhibition Reviews

• Bentonville, AR | Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West
  Review by Emily C. Burns, PhD, 82–84
• Evanston, IL | Woven Being: Art from Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland, Block Museum of Art
  Review by Noelle Garcia (Klamath/Northern Paiute), 85–86
• Grand Ronde, OR | Transgressors, Chachalu Museum and Cultural Center
  Review by Mandy Yeahpau (Comanche/Cherokee/Tarahumara descent), 87–88
• Hanover, NH | Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), Hood Museum of Art
  Review by Peter Letzelter-Smith, 89–90
• Minneapolis | Smart Wars by Rory Wakemup, All My Relations Arts
  Review by Dan Ninham, PhD (Oneida Nation), 91–92
• Oklahoma City | Cheyenne Ledger Artists of Fort Marion, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
  Review by James G. Bland, 92–93
• Taos | Taos Painted Stories, Taos Art Museum at Fechin House
  Review by Michelle J. Lanteri, PhD, 94–95
• Tulsa | WAR CLUB: Native Art and Activism, Philbrook Musuem of Art
  Review by Abby Mikalauskas, 95–96

Film Review

• Rez Ball, directed by Sydney Freeland (Diné)
  Review by Angela Startz (Inupiaq), 97–98

Music Review

• Horizons, Northern Arizona University
  Review by Thollem, 99–100

Book Review

• Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art by Danielle Taschereau Mamers
  Review by Ruth Thomas, 100–101

In Memoriam

• Martha Gorman Schultz (Diné, 1931–2025)
  by Christy Hanson (Diné), 106
• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish-Kootenai/Métis/Shoshone, 1940–2025)
  by Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 107
• Lillie T. Taylor (Diné, 1931–2024)
  by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 108