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The Native American Voices video project, completed in 2011, was conducted by exhibition curator Lucy Fowler Williams with support from the Annenberg Foundation and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten. Dr. Williams hired Hopi journalist, Patty Talahongva and her Phoenix based film crew, and traveled to four U.S. locations to conduct 25 first-person interviews with Native American artists, activists, scholars, and youth in their home communities. The following films highlight important issues that emerged from those discussions. Portions of these videos are presented in the Native American Voices exhibition.
Postindian Warriors: Creating a New Consciousness in Native America highlights the influential work of Anishinaabe writer and activist, Gerald Vizenor. Vizenor's expressions of "survivance" and "Postindian" reject Native American histories of absence and domination, and focus instead on the active presence of Native America today. Tlingit artists Nicholas Galanin and Clarissa Rizal speak about the importance of movement and change in their lives and work as well.
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