“People hear ‘resistance’ and ‘resilience’ and often think about survival in the face of incre

“People hear ‘resistance’ and ‘resilience’ and often think about survival in the face of incredible adversity, active protest against inequity and erasure, and the grit required to carry on in the face of violence, dispossession, and genocide. But resilience and resistance can be seen through more than just basic survival and confrontation. Resistance is not simply reactive. Rejecting the definitions imposed by outsiders, Native communities have long protected the fullness and creativity of their own lifeways, culture, language, and arts as a form of resistance. Resilience can be effectively expressed by actively maintaining and celebrating kinship and community bonds, taking pleasure in daily tasks, maintaining knowledge passed generation to generation, and nurturing innovation among youth. Using archival records alongside materials from the Museum’s collections, we offer many examples of these alternate modes of resistance and resilience, focusing on joyful moments where Indigenous people celebrate being makers, telling and maintaining their own histories, and being together with family and friends.” - Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch In observance of National Native American Heritage Month, this November we’ll be exploring the themes of the exhibition When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, with commentary from both Jeffrey Gibson and historian Dr. Christian Ayne Crouch.Installation views, Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks, Brooklyn Museum, February 14, 2020 - January 10, 2021, Featuring ⇨ Facsimile of [Navajo Girl Stretching Blanket Warp, Ganado], June 1903, page 76c. Culin Archival collection: Collecting expeditions [2.1.002], Report on a Collecting Expedition Among the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, 4-9/1903. #bkmarchives ⇨ Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894–1978). [Untitled] (Navajo Boys), 1950s. Gelatin silver photograph. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.298 ⇨ Aurelius O. Carpenter, American, 1836 - 1919 [“Joseppa, expert basket weaver. Jeff, her husband, and child. Pomo Indians, Yokeye, California"] Photograph. #BKMArchives, Culin Archival collection -- source link
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