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Melanie Yazzie (United States, born 1966)
Indian Boy Project, 1996
Screenprint
Gift of James Treat 2017-13-4
Here the Navajo (Diné) artist Yazzie combines elements of Native imagery: an elementary school art lesson, a cartoon, photographs, and a tourist map of Arizona, which includes the Navajo reservation town of Ganado, where the artist was raised.
How do we depict Native American history in a way that accounts for diverse ways of knowing?
What Native imagery speaks in meaningful ways today?
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See works by Melanie Yazzie in the Online Collection.
Selected by Anne Sautman and Jon Seydl
