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Abstract: Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Dancing La Sola Sola, 2018. Acrylic on panel, 48 × 48 in.I am currently living in several places at once: in Stone Mountain, Georgia, on the homelands of the Muscogee Nation; in the United States; on Turtle Island, Abia Yala, or Mother Earth. As part of my commitment to the Muscogee (Creek) people who have stewarded this place longer than anyone else, I am learning a little bit of the Muscogee language, trying to make a positive contribution to the places where the language was created, so those places can hear the language that was born here. I am not good at it—I have no grammatical knowledge and am just starting to pick up on the sounds—but I am enjoying it. As a greeting, Muscogee ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Dala. All images from the author unless otherwise noted.The back of the houseA long time ago, when I was a girl, I asked my mother why she would not leave my father.Bewildered, she replied, "Mama, if I leave him, where will my body be buried'"Nyar Saye"The dead don't go anywhere. They're all here. Every man is a royal cemetery, in which our grandmothers and grandfathers are. The father and mother, the wife, the son. Everyone is here all the time."1"I'm now interested in the nowness of things. I go around asking people stupid questions like, 'What happened to the five-year-old you used to be' Is it like the Russian dolls, and you just grow over new skin and new skin'' And they say stupid things like, 'Well, you ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Writing about families is one way of not writing about the nation.As a child in the 1980s, I sensed that family history was deadly serious. Family history was material, physical, and psychological survival. In New Jersey, where I grew up, our family was Black; back in Oklahoma, my grandmother reminded us, we were Creek Indian, too.My grandmother's childhood stories of our Black and Creek ancestors came to life during summertime trips to Oklahoma, steadily upending everything I thought I knew about race and nation from my own upbringing in New Jersey. From the backseat of my great-uncle Thurman's car, I called out my long list of naïve questions. Proudly tracing the perimeter of the old thousand-acre Brownsville ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Telling one's own story is a way of asserting identity. It is simultaneously a fundamental responsibility and an inherent gift for each human being—and is often one of the first casualties of colonialism and oppression. Indigenous storytellers, knowledge holders, and practitioners who tell their own stories have long been viewed as superstitious or primitive by colonial institutions—universities, government agencies, professional associations, and so on. By stories, we mean the complex and deeply contextual oralWire Pasture Landing on the Lumbee River, fall 2017. Photograph by Karen Dial Bird. traditions and narratives that involve Indigenous peoples and our place in the world. These kinds of stories embody ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From my family I have learned the secrets of never having a home.Growing up in the sandhills of Nebraska, I remember how my displaced Chickasaw father always surrounded us with his southern sensibilities: fried green tomatoes and eggplants, okra, black-eyed peas to start the new year, corn bread, and pit-roasted pig, javelina boar, or other hunted meats. In it would be the subtle contexts of culture and history, a way of family and kin, though never once did he overtly tell me "this is Chickasaw" or "this is how our ancestors have always done things." Instead, he would tell me he was an unrepentant Confederate and laugh even so at the thought of shooting North and South soldiers alike who might dare show their ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Black-owned land on Saint Helena Island sold as heirs' property. This fenced land was on Coffin Point Plantation, next to the "big house," November 8, 2020. Photograph by Mahoganëë Amigér, from The Soul of Black Land series.Every october, Beaufort County, South Carolina, holds a tax sale auction for delinquent properties. Last year was remarkable for two reasons. First, the auction of October 4, 2021, had more registered bidders (260) than properties upon which to bid (248), a surprising result considering the economic impact of the pandemic. And second, for the first time in years, only two Gullah properties fell to the auctioneer's gavel. Prior to such sales, Theresa White, ceo of the Pan-African Family ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: figurative: Any property, quality, or immaterial possession inherited from ancestors or previous generations.In 2020, during debates about the reauthorization of the Native American Housing and Self Determination Act (nahasda) in Congress, Representative Maxine Waters proposed an amendment to the law that would deny federal housing monies to any Native nation that denies tribal citizenship to Native "persons who are lineal descendants of Freedmen." To Waters, the issue was not one of tribal sovereignty; rather, she insisted that it was about "fairness and equality … for one minority group to discriminate against another minority group cannot stand." In Waters's opinion, the "lineal descendants" of those who ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A campsite on the banks of the Waccamaw River with an old strip boat hung from a tree to provide shade. All photographs by the author.A. e. faircloth died on Easter morning 2014. Among the things he left behind was a tidy double-wide on an acre lot in Longs, an unincorporated community in the northeastern corner of South Carolina. The lot fronted a couple of old wooden sheds, behind them a meticulously groomed if wholly plain vegetable garden. Twenty humped rows, hewn into the ground by years of 5:00 a.m. mornings, had been the object of tending and planting and picking that was as reliable as the sun that rose to wake A. E. to tend and plant and pick, most days before going to work with a local concrete mixing ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Chickasaws are a proud people: proud of the strength and military might we were known for among Indians in what is now the southeastern United States; proud of the strategic alliances we made with the English, and then the Americans; proud of the "unconquerable spirit" that meant we survived colonization, removal, and Oklahoma statehood; and proud of the prominent status women have always had in our nation. But because my Chickasaw identity is tied to my Blackness, I see a negative side to this pride—one inextricably linked to the history of enslavement.Before European contact, Chickasaws, like most people indigenous to North America (and, really, much of the world), took captive those they bested in battle ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Lauren Frances Adams, Forget-me-not, 2021. Vinyl wallpaper with hand-painted collage. Detail of installation view at All Due Respect, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. Photograph by Lauren Frances Adams.In early 2022, we visited each other's studios in Baltimore and Chestertown, Maryland, to discuss the influences of historical memory, ancestry, and artists' roles navigating time and place within white supremacy. Our first collaboration, in 2020, was the exhibition Rights and Wrongs: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Vote, hosted by the Peale Museum at the Carroll Mansion in Baltimore. A few months later, we were on a panel together, "Imagining the Future: Public Art Confronts the Past," hosted by the unc Center for the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I spent two years in Atlanta, Georgia, during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. Atlanta is a city with a diverse population, but it is known within Black communities as a mecca of Black culture and entertainment. While in Atlanta, I also learned a great deal about Indigenous erasure—very similar to Detroit, where some of my family still resides. In Atlanta, there is a presence of Indigenous erasure, or "playing Indian," exemplified by the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball team, as well as street signs bearing Indigenous names. Just as erasure of Indigenous peoples and other people of color is common in majority white cities, it is also prevalent in cities where the population is predominantly people of color. In ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Malinda Maynor Lowery and her daughter Lydia eat vegetable soup that Lydia made at their Durham, North Carolina home, April 25, 2021. Photograph by Baxter Miller.This issue takes me to the cultural inheritance from my own family and visceral memories of the extensive cropland, impenetrable forests, mysterious swamps, bayous, and waterways of northeastern Arkansas, where I grew up not far from the Mississippi River. Given the embodied knowledge of my regional inheritance, Toni Morrison's words about that same river, unnaturally straightened to create more land for agriculture and houses, resonate deeply. When those thousands of reclaimed acres flood annually, essayist Esther Ohito quotes Morrison in her piece, "It ... Read More PubDate: 2022-12-03T00:00:00-05:00
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