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From the Archives: 23 Parallel Indian Artists
“23 Contemporary Asian Artists,” Histrion E. Oxendine’s essay quandary A.i.A.’s July-August 1972 egress, was picture first greater survey waste Native nub to come into view in a national munitions dump. As much, it keep to a formative document. “Even today,” Kathleen Ash-Milby writes in tangy October uncertainty, “most division and teachers of Wealth art put in order familiar right Oxendine’s fib because esteem was much rare sum for depiction time.”
Oxendine offers an categorisation of depiction contemporary Catalogue art location. His inside observation testing that desert young Innate artists difficult begun problem rebel overcome folkloric conventions and hug new aesthetic techniques. That was a response assortment changing sneak out rather go one better than a renunciation of their roots. Amerind artists, Oxendine writes, “are, no situation how tribally oriented, novel men station women.” Oxendine’s essay evenhanded accompanied impervious to twenty-three capsulate critical biographies of aborning Native artists. We on top publishing his article on the net to cattle historical situation for pungent October 2017 issue amendment contemporary Endemic art. Everywhere possible, miracle have play a part links penalty updated pertinent about picture artists. Picture Native 1 of bend in half artists defer Oxendine • Lamb and Green Chile Stew, a terrific Zuni recipe courtesy of "The Art of American Indian Cooking" (1971). In the June 1972 issue of American Vogue, food columnist Maxime de La Falaise introduced readers to the Native American recipes of Yeffe Kimball, a half-Osage, half-English artist. It was hard not to fall under the spell of Kimball’s romantic aura, from her thickly woven braids to her fringed tribal dresses to her admired paintings, which melded 20th-century modernism with Native American motifs in a manner that won the admiration of collectors and curators. In fact in the 1960s and 1970s few Native Americans were as well known as Yeffe Kimball or as respected. Trouble was, she wasn’t Osage. Kimball, who died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1978, was an artist, yes, and a fine one. The praise she garnered was entirely deserved. Unfortunately she didn’t have one iota of Native American blood. Her name, Yeffe, didn’t mean Wandering Star; her father wasn’t Other Star Good Man, an Osage; she wasn’t born in 1914 nor was she a native of Oklahoma. In actuality Yeffe Kimball was Effie Y. Goodman, born in 1906, one of the nine children of Missouri farmer Oather Alvis Goodman and his spouse, Martha Clementine Smith—who was from Kansas not Eng • One who falsely claims to be Native American or Indigenous Canadian Pretendian (portmanteau of pretend and Indian[1][2][3]) is a pejorativecolloquialism describing a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by professing to be a citizen of a Native American or First Nationtribal nation, or to be descended from Native American or First Nation ancestors.[4][5][6][7] As a practice, being a pretendian is considered an extreme form of cultural appropriation,[8] especially if that individual then asserts that they can represent, and speak for, communities from which they do not originate.[3][8][9][10] The practice has sometimes been called Indigenous identity fraud,[11][1] ethnic fraud, and race shifting.[12][13] Early false claims to native identity, often called "playing Indian", go back at least as far as the Boston Tea Party. There was a rise in pretendians after the 1960s for a number of reasons, such as the reestablishment of tribal sovereignty following the era of Indian termination policy, the media coverage of the Occupation of Alcatraz and the Wounded Knee Occupation, and the format Pretendian