List of Abbreviations Timeline 1. An Introduction to the Indigenous Arts of North America Art history and Native Art: The Challenge of Inclusion --Modes of Appreciation: Curiosity, Specimen, Art --Object in Focus: the National Museum of the American Indian --Expanding Art History''s Inclusivity, and Defining "Art" Colonial Legacies --Ownership and Public Display --Issue in Focus: ''Who Owns Native Culture? --Commodification and Authenticity --Who Is an Indian? Clan, Community, Political Structure, and Art Spiritual Practices and the Making of Art --The Map of the Cosmos --The Nature of Spirit --Dreams and the Vision Quest --Shamanism Social Practices and the Making of Art --Public Celebration: Displaying and Transferring Power and Authority --The Power of Personal Adornment --"Creativity Is Our Tradition": Innovations and Retention --Gender and the Making of Art --Artist in Focus: Kent Monkman 2. The Southwest The Southwest as a Region The Ancient World: Anasazi, Mimbres, Hohokam --Ancestral Puebloan Architecture, Ritual and Worldview --Ancestral Puebloan Fiber Arts --Ancestral Puebloan Pottery --An Animated Universe: Mimbres Painted Bowls --Object in Focus: Mimbres Pottery Designs-Trajectories and Transformations --Hohokam Art and Culture --Paquimé: Crossroads of Cultures 1250 - 1450 CE From Late Precontact to the Colonial Era to the Modern Pueblos --Pecos Pueblo: An Intercultural Zone --Pueblo Architectural Space and Ritual Performance --Pueblo Pottery --Artists in Focus: Maria and Julian Martinez Navajo and Apache Arts --Arts of Medicine and Performance --Navajo Weaving and the Powers of Transformation --Materials in Focus: Wools for Navajo Weaving --Apache and O''odham Baskets --Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry 3. The East The East as a Region --Precontact Art Traditions: Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian Civilizations --The Archaic Period --The Woodland Period --Mississippian Art and Culture The Southeast: The Cataclysm of Contact --A Continuum of Basketry: Chitimacha Traditionalism and Beyond --Reconfiguring Southeastern Arts: Seminole and Miccosukee Textiles The Northeast and the Great Lakes --The Early Contact Period --Arts of the "Middle Ground" --Object in Focus: The Assiginack Canoe --Arts of Self-Adornment --Techniques in focus: quillwork and beadwork --In the Bag: A Mini-History of Change Told Through Bags --Artist in Focus: Caroline Parker --Souvenir Arts 4. The West The West as a Region The Great Plains The Plateau, The Great Basin, and California Art of the Great Plains --Women''s Arts --Technique in Focus: Tanning a Hide --Men''s Arts --Arts of Survival and Renewal --Artist in Focus: Silver Horn: Chronicler of Kiowa Life --An Aesthetic of Excess --Métis Art: "The Flower Beadwork People" The Intermontaine Region-An Artistic Crossroads --Object in Focus: A Bride''s Wealth and a Community''s Wealth The Far West: Arts of California and the Great Basin --Chumash baskets and the California Mission System --The ''Basketry Craze'' and the Arts and Crafts Movement --Lower Klamath River baskets --Pomo baskets: "Wrought with Feathers" --Washoe Baskets and the Power of Marketing 5. The North The North as a Region Arts of the Boreal Forests --The Beothuk: "Perhaps They Were Not All Erased" --Clothing Arts to Please the Animals --Painted Coats of the Innu: Pleasing the Spirits of Caribou --The James Bay Cree: From Painted Geometries to Beaded Flowers --Dene Clothing for Protection and Beauty The Arctic --Ancient Artists of the Arctic --Historic and Contemporary Arts of the Arctic --Arctic Architecture: Igloo, Tent, and House --Garments for Warmth and Beauty --Technique in Focus: Working with Gutskin --Artist in Focus: Nivisanaaq and Her Beaded Parka --Arts of Festival, Performance, and Success in the Hunt --Object in Focus: The Ttravels of a Raven Mask --Arts for New Markets: Baskets, Carvings, Dolls, and Textiles --Graphic Arts: Chronicling Life and Recalling the Past Toward the Twenty-First Century in the North 6. The Northwest Coast The Northwest Coast as a Region The Development of Styles: Local Variations and Regional Continuities Across Time --The Origins of Northwest Coast Artistic Styles: The Archaeological Record --The Early Contact Period --The Formline Style --Technique in Focus: Finger-weaving a Chilkat Blanket --Western Connoisseurship and Northwest Coast Art --Object in Focus: A Tsimshian Mask and Questions of Patrimony Contexts for Art: Power, Status, and Cross-Cultural Exchange --Shamanism --Crest Art --The Potlatch --Art, Commodity, and Oral Tradition --Artists in Focus: Charles and Isabella Edenshaw Northwest Coast Art Since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 7. Native Art 1900-1980: Moderns and Modernists The Multiplicity of Modernisms --Problems of Definition: Indigenous, Modern, Modernist --Primitivism, the "Time-Lag," and Multiple Modernisms --The "Contemporary Traditional" in Twentieth-Century Art --Moments of Beginning --Schooling the Modern Native North American Artist --The Southern Plains and the Kiowa Five --Pueblo Painting and the Rise of the "Studio Style" --The Display and Marketing of American Indian Art: Exhibitions, Mural Projects, and Competitions --Object in Focus: "Book Cover of "Introduction to American Indian Art" (1931) Moderns and Modernists at the Mid-Century --Pioneering Modernists: Howe, Herrera, Houser --The Institute of American Indian Arts --Twentieth-Century Native Art in Alaska --Institutional Frameworks and Modernisms in Canada --Inventing ''Inuit Art'' --Technique in Focus: Inuit Stonecut Prints --Tradition in Modernity on the Northwest Coast --Anishinaabe Modern and Plains Abstraction: Morrisseau and Janvier Artists and Activists in Canada: The 1970s and 1980s --The Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 --Professionalization and Experimentation: Decolonizing Modernism --Artist in Focus: Fritz Scholder 8.

Native Cosmopolitanisms: 1980 and Beyond The 1980s and the Rise of a Contemporary Native Art Movement --The Artist as Trickster --Institutional Contexts Contemporary Art: Media, Expressive Modes, Artistic Choices --Painting and Graphic Arts --Artist in Focus: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith- --Artist and Advocate Photography Craft in Art: Fiber, Metal, Clay, and Beyond --Concept in Focus: What Is "Craft"? Sculpture and Mixed Media Installation --Object in Focus: Edgar Heap of Birds'' Wheel Performance Film, Video, and New Media Preeminent Issues in Native Art Since 1980 --Postcolonial Perspectives on Sovereignty, Home, and Homelands --Ecology and the Land --The Native Body --Globalism and the Transnational Conclusion: "Celebrate 40,000 Years of American Art" - But Be Vigilant Notes Bibliographic Essay Index List of Abbreviations Timeline 1. An Introduction to the Indigenous Arts of North America Art history and Native Art: The Challenge of Inclusion --Modes of Appreciation: Curiosity, Specimen, Art --OBJECT IN FOCUS: The National Museum of the American Indian --Expanding Art History''s Inclusivity, and Defining "Art" Colonial Legacies --Ownership and Public Display -ISSUE IN FOCUS: ''Who Owns Native Culture? --Commodification and Authenticity --Who Is an Indian? Clan, Community, Political Structure, and Art Spiritual Practices and the Making of Art --The Map of the Cosmos --The Nature of Spirit --Dreams and the Vision Quest --Shamanism Social Practices and the Making of Art --Public Celebration: Displaying and Transferring Power and Authority --The Power of Personal Adornment --"Creativity Is Our Tradition": Innovations and Retention --Gender and the Making of Art --ARTIST IN FOCUS: Kent Monkman--Repainting Art''s Histories 2. The Southwest The Southwest as a Region The Ancient World: Anasazi, Mimbres, Hohokam --Ancestral Puebloan Architecture, Ritual and Worldview --Ancestral Puebloan Fiber Arts --Ancestral Puebloan Pottery --An Animated Universe: Mimbres Painted Bowls --OBJECT IN FOCUS: Mimbres Pottery Designs--Trajectories and Transformations --An Animated Universe: Mimbres Painted Bowls --Hohokam Art and Culture --Paquimé: Crossroads of Cultures 1250 - 1450 C.E. From Late Precontact to the Colonial Era to the Modern Pueblos --Pecos Pueblo: An Intercultural Zone --Pueblo Architectural Space and Ritual Performance --Pueblo Pottery --ARTISTS IN FOCUS: Maria and Julian Martinez Navajo and Apache Arts --Arts of Medicine and Performance --Navajo Weaving and the Powers of Transformation --MATERIALS IN FOC.