LibGuides: Institute for the Study of Culture and Society: Dylan Miner (2017-2018)

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | 5:30 p.m. | Wood County District Public Library Atrium

Dylan Miner, a Wiisaakodewinini (Métis) artist featured in over twenty solo exhibitions and adjunct curator of Indigenous art at the Michigan State University Museum, is the founder of the Justseeds artists collective and a board member of the Michigan Indian Education Council. He recently commenced the Bootaagaani-mini ∞ Drummond Island Land Reclamation Project, a decolonial initiative to acquire land and establish a Wiisaakodewininiwag cultural centre for Métis whose ancestors were forced to leave the island following the War of 1812. Miner's book Creating Azatlán: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island, employs Indigenous and Native American methodologies to show that Chicano art needs to be understood in the context of Indigenous history, anticolonial struggle, and Native American Studies.

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Recommended by the Speaker

"Introduction: Indigenizing"
Introduction to Dylan Miner's book Creating Aztlan: Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island
"Makataimeshekiakiak, Settler Colonialism, and the Specter of Indigenous Liberation"
Chapter by the speaker featured in Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
"Gaagegoo Dabakaanan miiniwaa Debenjigejig: No Borders, Indigenous Sovereignty"
Chapter by the speaker featured in We Are Aztlan: Chicanx Histories in the Northern Borderlands