Hearts of our people: Native women artists

Introduction --

In Focus: Mi'kmaw Chair / Dakota Hoska --

In Focus: St. Lawrence Iroquoian Pot / Moira McCaffrey --

Making Our World: Thoughts on Native Feminine Aesthetics / heather ahtone --

"Encircles Everything": A Transformative History of Native Women's Arts / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips --

Legacy : --

Those Naranjo Women: Daughters of the Earth / Tessie Naranjo --

In Focus: 'Maria', Rose, Empowerment, and Indigenous Women Rollin' Hard / Dyani White Hawk --

"Carrying On": Gender and Innovation in Historic Pueblo Pottery Nampeyo, Maria Martinez, and Arroh-A-Och / Lea S. McChesney --

In Focus: Edmonia Lewis: 'The Old Arrow Maker' / America Meredith --

The Women Were Busy Abstracting the World / Teri Greeves --

Mary Sully: Ahead of Her Time / Jill Ahlberg Yohe --

In Focus: Christi Belcourt: 'The Wisdom of the Universe' / Dakota Hoska --

The Unsuccessful Indigenous Erasure: A Conversation with Delina White and Juanita Espinosa / Graci Horne --

In Focus: Jennie Ross Cobb: 'Cherokee Female Seminary Graduating Class, 1902' / America Meredith --

The Scientist and the Polymath: Tlingit Weavers Teri Rofkar and Clarissa Rizal / Aldona Jonaitis --

In Focus: Shelley Niro: 'Thinking Caps' / Ruth B. Phillips --

In Focus: Poemeo: 'It Was Cloudy' / Heid E. Erdrich --

Generations of Odawa Quill Art / Adriana Greci Green --

Early Native American Women Painters of Oklahoma / America Meredith --

In Focus: The Elk-tooth dress / Wendy Red Star --

In Focus: Lakota Young Man's Vest / Jessa Rae Growing Thunder --

Native Culture Endures: Basketry of the Columbia Plateau / Pat Courtney Gold and Bridget Johnson --

Relationships : --

In Focus: Dakota Cradleboard / Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow --

Mohawk Women of Kahnawake / Carla Hemlock --

Art as a Container for Culture / Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi --

In Focus: Slavey (Den©♭) Dog Blanket / Heather Everheart --

In Focus: The Story of the Two Miniature Pomo Beaded Baskets / Susan Billy --

Animate Matters: Thoughts on Native American Art Theory, Curation, and Practice / Jill Ahlberg Yohe --

In Focus: Cheyenne Pipe Bag / Heather Levi --

Memory Threads / Anita Fields --

In Focus: Hupa Girl's Dance Skirt / Susan Billy --

In Focus: Stepping Out: A Jingle Dress Moves Out in the World / Dakota Hoska --

In Focus: Blackfoot Man's Shirt / Jessa Rae Growing Thunder --

Nellie Two Bear Gates: Chronicling History through Beadwork / Susan Power --

In Focus: Weaving Materials, Cedar and Spruce Root / Lisa Telford --

Descendants of This Moment: From Paint to Beads / Teri Greeves --

In Focus: Kiowa Cradleboard / Teri Greeves --

In Focus: Faye HeavyShield: 'Aapaskaiyaawa (They Are Dancing)' / Heather Everhart --

In Focus: Mary Anne Barkhouse: 'Sovereign' / Heather Everhart --

Beadwork Conversations: Dyani White Hawk and Graci Horne / Teri Greeves --

In Focus: Ramona Sakiestewa: 'Nebula 22 & 23' / Lea S. McChesney --

Literary Arts: Native American Women Writers / Heid E. Erdrich --

Power : --

In Focus: Otiianehshon Ronwatiiatanhirats (The Women Raise Them Up): Women's Nomination Belt / Iakonikohnrio Tonia Loran-Gablan --

A Native Feminist Ethics in Contemporary Indigenous Art / Jennifer McLerran --

In Focus: Carla Hemlock: 'Walking Through Time' / Jennifer McLerran --

In Focus: Stacks of Generational Wisdom: Marie Watt / Dyani White Hawk --

In Focus: The Mystery Surrounding a Lakh©đta Dress / Dakota Hoska --

In Focus: Armor against the Enemy: An Otoe Faw Faw Coat / Christina E. Burke --

Acknowledging Women in Navajo Society: Leaders and Weavers / D. Y. Begay --

In Focus: D. Y. Begay: 'N©Łhooko¿¿sj©Ư Hai (Winter in the North)/Biboon Giiwedinong (It Is Winter in the North) / Jennifer McLerran --

In Focus: Mary Kawennatakie Adams: "Pope Basket" / Carla Hemlock --

In Focus: Child's Ribbon Work Blankets / Anita Fields --

In Focus: Qingi: Robe of Wealth / Evelyn Vanderhoop --

Working to Change the Tide: Women Artists on the Northwest Coast / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Megan A. Smetzer --

In Focus: 'Nacarrluk': Beaded Headdress / Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi --

In Focus: Mrs. Toussaint: Cox Leggings / Adriana Greci Green --

Seneca-style Beaded Women's Clothing / Wahsontiio Cross --

Two Early Masters / Adriana Greci Green --

In Focus: Beaded Diplomacy: Houston-Jackson Bandolier Bag / America Meredith --

In Focus: Rosalie Favell: 'The Collector/The Artist in Her Museum' / Ruth B. Phillips --

Seven Sisters: Native Women Painters Connected through Time by Medium / Dakota Hoska --

In Focus: Light, Memory, and Belonging: Some Thoughts on the Recent Landscapes of Emmi Whitehorse / Iris Colburn --

In Focus: Joan Hill: 'Women's Voices at the Council' / America Meredith --

Sustaining Traditions / Cherish Parrish and Kelly Church --

In Focus: Maria Tallchief: The Star that Danced over the Earth / Welana A. Queton --

Tuscarora Raised Beadwork and Raised Consciousness / Jolene Rickard --

Bearing Witness / Teri Greeves --

In Focus: Bax'ð̀¿ana'tsi: the Container for Souls / Marianne Nicolson.

Contributors (with biographical sketches on pages 333-336): Jill Ahlberg Yohe

heather ahtone

D.Y. Begay

Janet Catherine Berlo

Susan Billy

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse

Christina E. Burke

Kelly Church

Iris Colburn

Pat Courtney Gold

Wahsontiio Cross

Heid E. Erdrich

Heather Everhart

Anita Fields

Adriana Greci Green

Teri Greeves

Jessa Rae Growing Thunder

Carla Hemlock

Hapistinna

Dakota Hoska

Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi

Bridget Johnson

Aldona Jonaitis

Heather Levi

lakonikohnrio Tonia Loran-Galban

Moira McCaffrey

Lea S. McChesney

Jennifer McLerran

America Meredith

Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow

Tessie Naranjo

Marianne Nicolson

Cherish Parrish

Ruth B. Phillips

Susan Power

Welana Queton

Wendy Red Star

Jolene Rickard

Megan A. Smetzer

Lisa Telford

Evelyn Vanderhoop

Dyani White Hawk.

Contemporary women artists in Hearts of Our People exhibition, list provided by the Minneapolis Institute of Art: Keri Ataumbi, Kiowa/Comanche, born 1971

Mary Anne Barkhouse, Nimpkish band of Kwakiutl First Nation, born 1961

D.Y. Begay, Navajo, born 1953

Christi Belcourt, Michif, born 1966

Rebecca Belmore, Anishinaabe, born 1960

Susan Billy, Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, born 1951

Julie Buffalohead, Ponca, born 1972

Andrea Carlson, Ojibwe, born 1979

Kelly Church, Odawa and Pottawatomi, born 1967

Dana Claxton, Hunkpapa Lakota, Canadian, born 1959

Heid Erdrich, Ojibwe, Turtle Mountain, born 1963

Rosalie Favell, M©♭tis (Cree/English), born 1958

Anita Fields, Osage, born 1951

Jody Folwell, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1942

Pat Courtney Gold, Wasco, born 1939

Shan Goshorn, Cherokee, 1957-2018

Dorothy Grant, Haida, born 1955

Jessa Rae Growing Thunder, Dakota/Nakoda, born 1989

Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty, Dakota/Nakoda, born 1950

Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, Dakota/Nakoda, born 1969

Faye HeavyShield, K©Ł©Ưnawa (Blood) Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Canadian, born 1953

Carla Hemlock, Kanienkeh©Łka, born 1961

Joan Hill, Muskogee Creek and Cherokee, born 1930

Sonya Kelliher-Combs, I©łupiaq/Athabaskan, born 1969

Yvonne Walker Keshick (Binaakwiikwe, Falling Leaves Woman), Anishinaabe/Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians of Michigan, born 1946

Heather Levi, Southern Cheyenne/Kiowa, born 1971

Iakonikohnrio Tonia Loran-Galban, Mohawk, Bear clan Akwesasne, born 1965

Maxine Matilpi, Kwakwa¿łka¿ł'wakw, born 1956

Christine McHorse, Navajo, born 1948

America Meredith, Cherokee, born 1972

Nora Naranjo Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1953

Lou-ann Neel, Kwakwa¿łka¿ł'wakw, born 1963

Marianne Nicolson, Kwakwa¿łka¿ł'wakw, Dzawada¿ł'enux¿łw First Nations, born 1969

Shelley Niro, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Six Nations Turtle clan, born 1954

Jamie Okuma, Luise©ło/Shoshone-Bannock, born 1977

Cherish Parrish, Odawa and Pottawatomi, born 1989

Wendy Red Star, Aps©Łalooke (Crow), born 1981

Jolene Rickard, Tuscarora, born 1956

Cara Romero, Chemehuevi, born 1977

Ramona Sakiestewa, Hopi, born 1948

Tanis S'eiltin, Tlingit, born 1951

Rose B. Simpson, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1983

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation, born 1940

C. Maxx Stevens, Seminole/Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, born 1951

Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1962

Lisa Telford, Haida, born 1957

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Taskigi, Bear clan/Din©♭, Tsinajinnie clan, born 1954

Zoe Urness, Tlingit, born 1984

Evelyn Vanderhoop (Kujuuhl), Haida, Gawaa Git'ans Gitanee of Massett, British Columbia, born 1953

Kay WalkingStick, Cherokee, born 1935

Marie Watt, Seneca Nation of Indians, born 1967

Delina White, Leech Lake Anishinaabe, born 1964

Dyani White Hawk, Si♯‍h©Ł¿¿ßʹu Lakh©đta (Brul©♭), born 1976

Emmi Whitehorse, Navajo, born 1957

Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan, born 1979.

Historic women artists in Hearts of Our People exhibition, list provided by the Minneapolis Institute of Art: Mary Kawennatakie Adams, Akwesasne Mohawk, Wolf clan, 1917-1999

Elsie Allen, Pomo, 1899-1990

Arroh-a-och, Laguna Pueblo, c. 1830-1900

Susie Santiago Billy, Pomo, 1884-1968

Mrs. Tall Woman (Hanska Winyan) Charging Thunder, Sihasapa (Blackfeet) Lakota, 1844-?

Jennie Ross Cobb, Cherokee, 1881-1959

Mrs. Touissant Cox, Delaware, 19th century; Clara Darden, Chitimacha, 1828-1910, Louisiana

Angel De Cora, Ho Chunk/Winnebago, 1871-1919

Freda Diesing, Haida, 1925-2003

Isabella Edenshaw, Haida, 1858-1926

Nellie Two Bear Gates (Mahpiya Boga Win, Gathering of Clouds Woman), Ih©Ł¿¿kthu¿¿wa¿¿na Dakh©đta, Standing Rock Reservation, 1854-?

Elizabeth Hickox, Wiyot, 1872-1947; Louisa Keyser ("Dat so la lee"), Washoe, 1829-1925

Earth Woman, Mrs. Kipp, Mandan, c. 1810-1910

Edmonia Lewis, Mississauga and African American, c. 1844-1907

Lucy Martin Lewis, Acoma Pueblo, 1890-1992

Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1887-1980

Nampeyo, Hopi/Tewa, 1859-1942

Ellen Neel, Kwakwa¿łka¿ł'wakw, 1916-1966

Daphne Odjig, Odawa/Pottawatomi, 1919-2016

Jessie Oonark, Inuit, 1906-1985

Gahano, Caroline Parker Mt. Pleasant, Tonawanda Seneca, 1824-1892

Mary Sully (Susan Deloria), Dakota, 1896-1963

Maria Tallchief, Osage, 1925-2013.