Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Preformance
Annandale-on-Hudson: CCS Bard Hessel Museum, 2026
ISBN 978-1-954947-11-5
Contents: Credo For American Indian Theatre, by Lloyd H. Kiva New (Excerpted from Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Progress);
**Forward by Candice Hopkins; Prelude: Why a Reader? by Candice Hopkins; Editorial Note by Candice Hopkins;** (?)
Oral History by G. Peter Jemison; Sovereignty: A Line in the Sand by Jolene Rickard; On Occupation and Firsts Curatorial Note by John G. Hampton; Indian Theater and Native Self-Determination: An Artistic Experiment in Progress by Candice Hopkins; Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) by Michelle H. Raheja; Sick and Tired of Living on Stolen Land (2023) New Red Order with Riley Hooker;
**Editorial Note by Candice Hopkins**
Oral History by Spiderwoman Theater; Performance Art and Native Artist: An rEvolutionary Mix? by Aiyyana Maracle; BEADING + WEAVING by Szu-Han Ho and Eric-Paul Riege (with Hólǫ); NDN Theatre: Notes on olo lol olo lol olo by Eric-Paul Riege; Suk by Tanya Lukin Linklater; Event Scores from the Glossory of Insistence by Tanya Lukin Linklater; Speaking to Water, Singing to Stone: Peter Morin, Rebecca Belmore, and the Ontologies of Indigenous Modernity by Dylan Robinson;
**Editorial Note by Candice Hopkins**
Notes on Indian Theatre and Theatre Practice by Rolland R. Meinholtz (Excerpted from Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Progress); a shape, a slightly flattened half-circle, Curatorial Note by Brandee Caoba; DON'T MAKE ME OVER Performance Script with Monologue by Arielle Twist and Jeffrey Gibson; Notes on DON'T MAKE ME OVER by Jeffrey Gibson; why I write scores by asinnajaq; To Be Unbodied by Billy-Ray Belcourt; Fastest Growing Contemporary Art (2022) by New Red Order;
**Editorial Note by Candice Hopkins**
In a Wilderness garden by Rebecca Belmore; AN INFECTED SUNSET by Demian DinéYazhi'; Oral History by Theo Jean Cuthand; Creative Combat: Resurgent Artistic Practice by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Call Me in 93': An Interview with James Luna Steven Durland; When I Travelled to the Newcomers' Homelands Miss Chief Eagle Testickle (Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon); You Are Never Just One Thing in One Place: Tricksters and Contrary Spirits, A Discussion between Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Joseph Naytowhow, and Richard William Hill; The Big Night (2015) by Walter Scott
**Editorial Note by Candice Hopkins**
On the Commodification of Native Culture by Candice Hopkins; Luna Remembers by Paul Chaat Smith; Oral History by Rebecca Belmore; Give it Back: Masterpiece Theater (2023) by New Red Order with Riley Hooker
ITEM 2026-004 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Conscientious Conscripture – New Red Order with virgil b/g taylor
Nanook of the North – Robert Flaherty
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) – Zacharias Kunuk
Smoke Signals – Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie
Sunflower Siege Engine – Sky Hopinka
I walk. I remember – Margo Kane
Re-creation of a Dream – Zachery Longboy
olo lol olo lol olo – Eric-Paul Riege
Cultural Graffiti – Peter Morin (Tahltan Nation)
this is what happens when we perform the memory of the land – Peter Morin
Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowen: Speaking to Their Mother – Rebecca Belmore
To Be Unbodied – Billy-Ray Belcourt
Don't Make Me Over – Jeffery Gibson
rock piece (Ahuriri edition) – asinnajaq
An Infected Sunset – Demian DinéYazhi'
In a Wilderness Garden – Rebecca Belmore
Through the Looking Glass – Theo J. Cuthand, Lori Blondeau, Lorri Millan, and Shawna Dempsey
Lessons in Baby Dyke Theory – Theo J. Cuthand
Working Baby Dyke Theory – Theo J. Cuthand
2 Spirit Introductory Special $19.99 – Theo J. Cuthand
Neurotransmitting – Theo J. Cuthand
Reclamation – Theo J. Cuthand
Boi Oh Boi – Theo J. Cuthand
13 Eggs – Theo J. Cuthand
Paris/Ojibwa – Robert Houle
End of the Trail – James Luna
Two Worlds – James Luna
The Artifact Piece – James Luna
Call Me in '93 – James Luna, Steven Durland
White Carver (here performed by Perry Hohlstein – Nicholas Galanin
Body Indian – American Indian Theatre Ensemble
In My Dreams – James Luna
Emendatio – James Luna
Artifact #671B – Rebecca Belmore
Sawkill – Rebecca Belmore
Freeze – Rebecca Belmore, Osvaldo Yero
Virgil – Rebecca Belmore
The Named and the Unnamed – Rebecca Belmore
Making Always War – Rebecca Belmore
Total Synchronization – Maria Hupfield
Event Scores for Afognak Alutitt 1-3 (abridged) – Tanya Lukin Linklater
Listener – Kite
Aǧúyabskuyela – Kite
Mirror Shield Project – Cannupa Hanska Luger with Rory Wakemup