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    Home»Archives»2017»FAAM No. 16, Fall 2017

    FAAM No. 16, Fall 2017

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    By FAAM Staff on November 18, 2017 2017, Archives

    FAAM 16, Fall 2017

    Issue No. 16, Fall 2017

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    Features

    • This Other Me: Alter Egos in Art by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 22–26
    • Plains Horse Dance Staffs by Kim Mariette, 28–31
    • Contemporary Lumbee Art by Nancy Palm Puchner, PhD, 34–39
    • Edmonia Lewis in Rome by Gloria Bell (Métis), 40–46

    Artist Profiles

    • Kelly Church: Odawa-Ojibwe-Potawatomi Basketweaver by Jean Merz-Edwards, 48–53
    • Jamie Okuma: Luiseño-Shoshone-Bannock Beadwork Artist and Designer by Karen Kramer, 54–59
    • Tony Tiger: Muscogee-Seminole-Sac & Fox Mixed-Media Artist by Mary Jo Watson, PhD (Seminole), 60–65
    • Star Wallowing Bull: White Earth Ojibwe-Arapaho Painter by Sheila Regan, 66–71

    Departments

    • Recent Developments, 14–15
    • Seven Directions | Tahnee Ahtoneharjo Growingthunder (Kiowa-Muscogee-Seminole), 16–17
    • Exploring Native Design | I Am Anishinaabe: Delina White, Lavender Hunt, and Sage Davis, Leech Lake Ojibwe Fashion Designers, RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 18–20
    • Responding to Jimmie Durham
      • Decentering Durham, Nancy Marie Mithlo, PhD (Chiricahua Apache), 84–85
      • Not Jimmie Durham’s Cherokee, Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation), 85–86
      • Walk Through at the Hammer, James Luna (Payómkawichum/Ipi/Mexican-American), 87–88
      • A Chapter Closed?, America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 88–89
    • Calendar, 92–95

    In Memoriam

    • Delbridge Honanie (Hopi, 1946–2017) by Zena Pearlstone, PhD, 90
    • Charles Pratt (Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho, 1937–2017) by Harvey Pratt (Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho), 91

    Reviews & Reports

    Art Exhibit Reviews

    • Brookings, SD | Horse Nation of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, South Dakota Museum of Art
      Review by Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 72–73
    • Davis, CA | Great Basin Artists, C. N. Gorman Museum
      Review by Thollem McDonas, 73–74
    • London | Where the Thunderbird Lives : Cultural Resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America, British Museum
      Review by Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 74–75
    • Santa Fe | Beads: A Universe of Meaning, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
      Review by Michelle Lanteri, 76–77
    • Venice | La Biennale di Venezia
      Review by Sarah Tamashiro, 78–79

    Book Reviews

    • Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity, Laura E. Smith (University of Nebraska Press, 2016)
      Review by Neal McDonald Hampton (Chickasaw/Caddo), 80–81
    • My Tree of Life as an Appraiser of American Indian Art: My Viewpoint, Leona M. Zastrow, PhD (Archway Publishing, 2017)
      Review by America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 81

    Film Review

    • Neither Wolf Nor Dog, Steven Lewis Simpson (Roaring Fire Films, 2016)
      Review by RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 82–83

     


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