More-than-human collaboration and resilience in modern Native American art, 1930-1980
| Author(s) | Colón, Zoë | |
| Date Accessioned | 2023-08-21T22:54:25Z | |
| Date Available | 2023-08-21T22:54:25Z | |
| Publication Date | 2023 | |
| SWORD Update | 2023-06-26T19:09:01Z | |
| Abstract | During the twentieth century, the American and Canadian governments regulated or eliminated Indigenous relationships with particular animal populations, such as sheep, eagles, salmon, and sled dogs, as a means of evacuating land for white settlement and extractive industries. Government-supported arts institutions, such as schools, museums, and print co-operatives, were intended to replace subsistence practices and assimilate Native communities into a capitalist economy. Native artists working under the auspices of these programs often depicted Indigenous-animal relationships that both local and national environmental laws impeded. Through a series of four case studies that address environmental policies and Native artistic responses in their regional contexts, my dissertation will argue that the entanglement of colonial-environmental policy with Native artistic modernisms paradoxically produced the conditions for Native graphic arts to embody and transmit Indigenous ecologies to Native communities and beyond. I will also demonstrate that this transcultural exchange paved the way for the development of ecological modernisms in the United States and Canada, Indigenizing our understanding of American art history. | |
| Advisor | Horton, Jessica L. | |
| Degree | Ph.D. | |
| Department | University of Delaware, Department of Art History | |
| Extent | "All images [on pages 305-372] removed due to copyright"--Page 305. | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.58088/atzc-1391 | |
| Unique Identifier | 1395071149 | |
| URL | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33126 | |
| Language | en | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | |
| URI | https://login.udel.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/more-than-human-collaboration-resilience-modern/docview/2832985040/se-2?accountid=10457 | |
| Keywords | Cheyenne | |
| Keywords | Indigenous | |
| Keywords | Inuit sled dogs | |
| Keywords | Kiowa | |
| Keywords | Navajo | |
| Keywords | Sled dogs | |
| Title | More-than-human collaboration and resilience in modern Native American art, 1930-1980 | |
| Type | Thesis |