Browse Items (38 total)
Sort by:
Shinnecock Eastern War
Artist Statement: "With the world becoming so modern and run by technology, I wanted to create something traditional and captured in this modern time. [At the] Shinnecock Annual Pow Wow 2018, I had the opportunity of witnessing the eastern war…
Vocabulary of the Unquachog Indians
Page one from a two-page manuscript presenting a vocabulary of the Unquachog Indians from the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society.
"Matcik Way"
Artist Statememt:"Part of my 'Circling Picasso' series. This piece is a gathering of various cultural and aesthetic elements symbolic of our creation story and imperative to our ways of life. The form stems from a mergence of both female and male…
"Journey: The Black and Red Experience in the 'New' World"
Artist Statement:"This piece has a dual timeline for the stories of these two peoples brought together by invading peoples. The shape of the piece has the west coast of Africa and the east coast of the U.S. The binding is made of a fabric to depict…
"Shinnecock Potedaup (Whale) Ceremony, 17th Century"
Martine's work gifts us an intense and vibrant visualization of an Indigenous Sewanhaky past, where daily life and ceremony are freely expressed. Martine's painting interrupts a European art history narrative that attempts to side-step or leave out…
“Morning Prayer at Shinnecock”
Why would prayer and spiritual beliefs be an act of liberation? In 1978, the passage of the American Indian Freedom of Religious Act (Public Law No. 95-341, 92 Stat. 469) permitted Indigenous people to openly practice their spiritual beliefs. At the…
"Mandush, Shinnecock Sachem of the 17th Century"
Thanks to the work of Indigenous historians, knowledge keepers, and artists we can understand the connection between past and present as a catalyst towards a liberated Indigenous future. The names of Dutch colonists are familiar to many of us, but…
"Late Afternoon Rest"
Algonquian women of Sewanhaky are and always have been, leaders in their families and communities. They weighed in and sometimes signed treaties with colonists.
"Dan Namakin at Standing Rock, ND"
Dan Namakin is a youth advocate from Nespelem, WA. Quoted in an article from Indian Country Today (November 14, 2016) by Mary Annette Pember titled "DAPL Water Protectors at Risk for PTSD," Dan said, "The sound of wooden batons striking our people…