Resources for American Indian Ledger Art, List of Profiles of Native American Painters and Potters
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Resources for American Indian Ledger Art
The Kiowa Five
Kiowa Drawings in the Smithsonian
"Kiowa painters were prominent in the development of contemporary Indian painting, and led the early "Oklahoma school" of work. Most famous among them were the Kiowa Five -- Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke and, briefly, Lois Smokey, all of whom studied at the University of Oklahoma in the late 1920s"
The Kiowa Five, Written by N. W. Hager, Melton Art Reference Library
The Kiowa Five, Jacobson House Native Arts Center
Pictographic art form
"Plains Indian Drawings" by Janet Catherine Berlo
Fort Marion Artists, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution
Plain's Indian Ledger Art Digital Art Project
Ledger Book of Making Medicine, Fort Marion Prisoner, Massachusetts Historical Society
Amos Bad Heart Bull, A Biography
Images-A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux, Drawings, Page 1
Images-A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux, Drawings, Page 2
Plains Indians Ledger Art, 1860-1900, by Christie McAuley, UNM Summer Institute 2000
Ledger art project U of CA, San Diego
Various Ledgers from U of CA archives
Ledger Art in the Rutherford B. Hayes Papers
Ledger Drawings, Then and Now, By Suzanne Deats
Library/Archives Division of the Kansas State Historical Society
Pamplin Cheyenne/Arapaho Ledger
Ledger Art in the Modern Era
Ledger art is traditionally a male American Indian pictographic art form, and historically has been characterized as such by researchers. Chronologically its stylistic development belongs to the Proto-Modern era of the Native American Fine Arts Movement and was a major influence, through trade routes and the patronage of white art collectors, on Modern Indian Art as its elements diffused to the schools of New Mexico, Oklahoma, and the Northwest Coast. Its more explicit expression, however, yielded to the styles that developed in these schools and culminated in the early 1960's during a period of the Movement referred to as the First Generation Modernists. Only recently have the researchers of Ledger art recognized Virginia Stroud as the Native American Woman artist who, as a Second Generation Modernist and a member of the so-called "New Indian Art Movement", revitalized a traditionally male form of art expression with her pictographic images in the late 1960's to the early 1980's. Influence on Stroud's stylistic achievements can be attributed to her Kiowa upbringing centered in Oklahoma, which is the major geographic center of the Southern Plains school, and her attendance at Bacone under the direction and influence of Dr. Richard West.
Virginia Stroud, Biographical Information
Virginia Stroud, Pictographic Examples
Stylistic Development and Dorothy Dunn
Full Article- Dorothy Dunn and "Primitive" Art
The artist's of tribes of the Great Plains left their paper trail for centuries on rocks, cave walls, and buffalo robes and other animal skins. After contact with the white man the Native American artists began to use paper from the ledger books that traders used for record keeping, thus the term "ledger art". The drawings were characteristic of the style that had persisted for centuries and culminated with the end of the proto-modern era of the Native American art movement.
It was at the end of this era and the beginning of the Modernistic era of the movement that Dorothy Dunn was teaching at the Santa Fe school. During her tenure she encouraged her students to continue the traditions of their predecessors in the "flat", or "primitive" art style. Here one can cite Dunn's unique concept of "primitive", and even more so her concept of "primitive art".
Anthropologists use the term "primitive" as a general category to describe cultures which had not achieved a certain standard (define modernity). For Dunn, a primitive was not a certain type of culture, but described individuals and objects indigenous to any, every, culture. The primitive subject was that gifted individual, or "seer" whom was able to discern the primitive objects relevant to their culture. These objects were also "primitives", and represented the signs, icons, or symbols of a culture. Thus, for Dunn, "primitive art" was the one to one relationship between the seer and the perceived set of primitive objects of their culture. Primitive was not a certain type of culture, but a certain set of variables occurring in every culture, and primitive art was an event that portrayed the values, or what was of importance in that culture. Thus, Dunn encouraged her students to carry on the tradition into the Modernist era.
See also: Dorothy Dunn's Influences
George Flett
George Flett, Images
Donald F. Montileaux, Biography
Donald F. Montileaux, Images
"White Fawn's Devotion"
Library of Congress has added "White Fawn's Devotion," a 1910 film by James Young Deer, the first known Native American movie director, to its National archives.
"White Fawn's Devotion" (1910), is an 11-minute silent drama concerning a misunderstanding between a white settler and his Native American wife. Director James Young Deer, a member of the Winnebago Indian tribe, was believed to have written and directed more than 100 films between 1910 and 1913. (Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY and Southern Indiana)
Eiteljorg Lands 800 Piece Southwest Art Collection
(INDIANAPOLIS) December 12, 2008, The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is proud to announce the gift of the Helen Cox Kersting Collection of Southwestern Cultural Arts, a multi-million-dollar collection of nearly 800 objects, including the best of Southwestern pottery, jewelry and other objects. The collection will be the basis of a forthcoming book and an exhibition in 2010.
Native American Indian Policy: Removal or Genocide?
"If this happened today, it would likely be considered genocide." "To a detached, objective outsider, America’s Indian Policy and Removal Acts were nothing short of racial genocide. Broken treaty after broken treaty. One lie after another."
See full article by Jack Wellman - OVI Magazine
Art: Review: Vanishing Frontier, Cincinnati Art Museum
An article examining the construction of the visual mythology of the American Indian
Exploring American Indian imagery
Profiles, Biographies of Native American Painters and Potters
Books of Interest
Classic Hopi And Zuni Kachina Figures
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK: THE FIRST 100 YEARS
Fine Indian Jewelry: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection
AEQ Book Review of
Making Dictionaries:
Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas .
Frawley, William, Kenneth C. Hill, and Pamela Munro, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 450 pp. ISBN 0520229967, $34.95.
© 2004 American Anthropological Association Book
Review
of Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas .
Reviewed for the Anthropology & Education Quarterly by Catherine S. Fowler
University of Nevada
csfowler@unr.nevada.edu
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THE FOURTH WORLD
W. Tussinger has written his first novel which was released in December, 2004.
W. Tussinger is a member of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma and has lived on several reservations including the Yuroks of Northern California and the
Yakamas of Washington State where he attended college.
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book
THE WOMEN/Edward S. Curtis
by Christopher Cardozo; foreword by Louise Erdrich (Bulfinch Press, $35) — Cardozo, who lives in Minneapolis, is the world's foremost expert on, and
collector of, photos of American Indians taken by turn-of-the-century photographer Edward S. Curtis. Cardozo went through 1,000 photos to find the 100
sepia-toned images in this book, which show the daily lives of American Indian women at a time when most were already on reservations. Minneapolis novelist
and poet Erdrich discusses women's work in her foreword: " … although Edward Curtis believed that he was documenting a vanishing culture, it is in these
humble arts that the strength of Native culture lives on."
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Literature on Native America
An Overview of Pacific Northwest Native Indian Art
Free downloadable e-book
American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
by Donna Hightower Langston
Complete article
Linguists Find the Words, and Pocahontas Speaks Again
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Hero, Hawk, and Open
Hand, The Book
Early tribal artifacts put in spotlight at the Smithsonian National Museum of
Natural History
Web Sites:
Native American Links Page
Indigenous Peoples Literature
Native Voice
Wisdom of the Old People
By David Whitney
National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation
Inuit film to tell story of last great
shaman
My Two Beads Worth: Indigenous News Online
Northern California Indian Development Council
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