This article details Native artists who appropriate the discourse of white anthropologists have used to describe Native art and culture and turn it against itself. Victor Masayesva Jr.'s video art project Ritual Clowns deals with misinterpretations of Hopi ritual clowns by tourists and anthropologists. The piece contrasts a group of school children's trip to the Smithsonian museum to learn their version of Hopi history with a young Hopi child's experience with her grandmother making pottery. The article goes on to detail other video pieces which explore the misunderstanding of Native cultures by white anthropologists.