Review of Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI by Dean Rader

Authors

Beverly R. Singer, University of New Mexico

Date of this Version

Spring 2012

Citation

Great Plains Quarterly 32:2 (Spring 2012).

Comments

Copyright © 2012 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.

Abstract

This study is a wholehearted exploration of artistic and cultural production engaging the theme of American Indian resistance, perhaps going further than previous American Indian art forums in print with a thematic analysis. Rader organizes an inventory of the creative process of resistance (against extinction, misrepresentation, and debasement) by detailing in chapter 2 artistic works-including Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's large painted canvases denoting maps of Indigenous-named states in the U.S.-that Rader says represent a resistance to settler society's seizings and its attempted erasure of Natives while simultaneously claiming their continued presence.