NEW: Native Visual Sovereignty

 

Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance, edited by Candice Hopkins | Dancing Foxes Press, December 2025

If you saw the excellent Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 exhibition in 2023, you'll know how layered and diverse the history of Native performance art is, and even if you didn't see it, this may help get you up to speed. Starting with the well-known occupation of Alcatraz by Native activists in 1969, this reader makes the case that that important event kick-started an era of actions and performances that claimed public space for many groups who were facing erasure just a few decades before. This book centers Native agency, and that's exactly the story we should all be reading. —Hrag Vartanian, editor-at-large

Native Visual Sovereignty: A Reader on Art and Performance, edited by Candice Hopkins | Dancing Foxes Press, December 2025

If you saw the excellent Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 exhibition in 2023, you'll know how layered and diverse the history of Native performance art is, and even if you didn't see it, this may help get you up to speed. Starting with the well-known occupation of Alcatraz by Native activists in 1969, this reader makes the case that that important event kick-started an era of actions and performances that claimed public space for many groups who were facing erasure just a few decades before. This book centers Native agency, and that's exactly the story we should all be reading. —Hrag Vartanian, editor-at-large VIA