Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective: The Graphic Work of Floyd Solomon

Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective: The Graphic Work of Floyd SolomonFew contemporary artists before the 1990s explored the negative impact of the Spanish in the Southwest, but unreflective celebrations of the Columbus Quincentennial brought about portrayals of a more complicated legacy of Columbus's arrival in the Americas especially by Indigenous artists. Through a series of etchings, Floyd Solomon of Laguna and Zuni heritage undertook a visual recounting of Pueblo history using Indigenous knowledge positioned to

not a transcendent species with no responsibilities to the natural world

expansion across the continent

Throughout 2016

Jack Mauser’s former wives pass the night by remembering how each came to love

Features include maps of ancestral lands

and Ojibwe-Dakota relations

The result is a comprehensive resource restoring the histories of Indigenous Peoples and their nations to their rightful place in the story of America

With beauty and ease

the majority of Minnesotans have not acknowledged the immense and ongoing harms suffered by the Dakota People ever since their homelands were invaded over 200 years ago

an Elder shares his experience of packing up to go out to collect blueberries

In Reimagining History from an Indigenous Perspective

and the systematic push for assimilation as seen in missionary activity