Native Artists Online- Early September 2019 Edition

This edition brings a fitting follow up to our August Featured Artist, Wapshkankwet, with her personal favorite beader Ali Watson (@igmuthankastore) as our Featured Artist for early September (full disclosure @igmuthankastore is also the founder of this site, @aliwatson117). Ali will be our first bi-monthly featured artist with a new featured artist following later this month, those of … Read more

SXSW Panel Picker “Playing Indian and Other Racist Nonsense”

Ali Watson and Johnnie Jae have submitted a SXSW Panel Picker proposal for the 2019 SXSW conference. The topic is “Playing Indian and Other Racist Nonsense“. With this panel, we propose to address the harm of trends such as Pretendian-ism, or the act of pretending to be Indigenous, such as claiming to be Cherokee or … Read more