Native Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Indians. These terms we've applied to those who connect ancestrally to the Americas since before 1492. These people have been attacked, beaten, killed, forced on to specifically inhospitable land, we stripped of their culture, and yet they persevere. During the 1950s-and 1960s civil rights movements, they fought alongside African, Asian, and Latino American's for recognition as a group of people. 

Students will learn about some of the Indigenous artists creating in the 20th and 21st centuries. Through a combination of lecture and discussion, students will learn about these artists, see some of their art, and practice looking for symbols and details.

Shan Goshorn, a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee, learned basket weaving from her elders to continue the tradition. Adapting these techniques with modern materials Goshorn weaves paper and fibers into the historic designs and patterns. Her Cherokee series uses paper reproductions of images from the Carlisle Indian School. 

Brian Jungen is a Dane-Zaa and Swiss artist living in British Columbia. Working in both two and three dimensions some of his best know works are masks resembling those of his ancestral heritage but the material they are made of is better recognized as the footwear they were originally made to be.