Issue No. 48, Fall 2025
(October–December)
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Features
- Rising to the Surface with Storywork: Edgar Heap of Birds, Erin Shaw, Arthur Amiotte,
and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Performers in Venice
By Emily C. Burns, PhD, 22–31 - Olmec Colossal Heads: The Surviving Faces of Mesoamerica’s First Civilization
By Florence Wanjiru, 32–37 - The Art of Resistance: How Nasa Murals Reclaim Colombia’s Wounded Lands
By Clara Jaeger, 40–45 - Carrying Culture: Bandolier Bags Today
By Sheila Regan, 46–52
Artist Profiles
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“Wallet (NdN status Sobeys portrait–Visa)” by Nico Williams (Aamjiwnaang Ojibway). Keanu Jones: Navajo Filmmaker, Photographer, and Digital Artist
By RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo), 56–61 - Brenda Mallory: Cherokee Nation Sculptor, and Installation Artist
By Mandy Yeahpau (Comanche/Cherokee/Tarahumara descent), 62–67 - Marty Two Bulls Jr.: Oglala Lakota Printmaker, Sculptor, and Mixed-Media Artist
By Dan Ninham, PhD (Oneida Nation), 68–73 - Nico Williams: Aamjiwnaang Ojibway Beadwork and Installation Artist
By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 74–79
Departments
- Recent Developments, by Staci Golar and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 11–16
- Seven Directions, Scott Manning Stevens, PhD, 18–22
- Art+Literature | Angela Sterritt: Gitxsan Author, Journalist, and Educator
By Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 100–103
- Calendar, by Nicole Emmons (Citizen Potawatomi), Staci Golar, and America Meredith (Cherokee Nation), 109–112
Reviews
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“Awídi amohadóto-yekumédi (Remolí de 10 vueltas)”, by Ye’kwana artist once known, part of “Convergences—Divergences: Two Aesthetics, One Sensibility.” Photo: Rafael Guillen. Exhibition Reviews, 81–97
- Banff, AB | The Ancestors Are Talking: Paintings by the Indigenous Seven, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Review by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 83–84 - Denver | Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors, Denver Art Museum
Review by Andrea L. Ferber, PhD, 85–86 - Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico | Convergences—Divergences: Two Aesthetics, One Sensibility, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
Review by Constanza Ontiveros Valdés, PhD, 86–87 - Santa Fe | Kite and Wíhaŋble S’a Center: Dreaming with AI, IAIA Museum of Contempo-rary Native Arts
Suzanne Newman Fricke, PhD, 88–89 - Santa Fe | Makowa: The Worlds Above Us, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
By Anna Smist (Sac & Fox), 89–91 - Santa Fe | New Mythos, Cara Romero Gallery
By Michelle J. Lanteri, 91–92 - Santa Fe | Once Within a Time, 12th SITE SANTA FE International
By Kateri Smith (Blackfoot/Métis descent), 93–94 - Santa Fe | Visualizing K’é: New Works by Marwin Begaye, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
By Neebinnaukzhik Southall (Chippewas of Rama First Nation), 94–96 - Topeka, KS | DoPiKa: Reinstate, Mulvane Art Museum
By Viryriana Flores, 96–97
- Banff, AB | The Ancestors Are Talking: Paintings by the Indigenous Seven, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Book Review
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet)
Review by Peter Letzelter-Smith, 98–99
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet)
Memorials
- Mary Aitson (Cherokee Nation, 1931–2025)
By Jay Hannah (Cherokee Nation), 104 - Patricia Deadman (Grand River Tuscarora/Mohawk, 1961–2024)
By Alex Jacobs-Blum (Cayuga), Heather George (Mohawk), and Jake Jamieson (Mohawk), 105 - Ramona Lossie (Eastern Band Cherokee, 1964–2025)
By Monā Lossie and Precise’ Lossie (both Eastern Band Cherokee), 106 - Ted Moore (Otoe-Missouria/Osage/Pawnee/Sac & Fox/Potawatomi, 1953–2025)
By Matt Jarvis (Osage), 107 - Thompson Williams (Caddo, 1956–2025)
By Robin Williams (Wichita/Caddo/Comanche), 108