Critical Writing Index

Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Preformance

by Candice Hopkins

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