The title of Wendy Red Star's midcareer survey, "A Scratch on the Earth," comes from the Apsáalooke (Crow) word annúkaxua, which refers to the "scratches" the United States government made on the…
For André Breton, collecting les arts premiers (tribal art) was an inherently "surrealist activity" capable of displacing the rationalized relations of the modern world.
The commodification of Indigenous culture is a global phenomenon. Souvenir shops throughout southeast Alaska sell imitations of Northwest Coast Native masks made in Indonesia. Nicholas Galanin…