Never broken : visualizing Lenape histories / edited by Joe Baker and Laura Turner Igoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Joe, 1946- Editor.

Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982- Editor.

James A. Michener Art Museum.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delaware Indians--History.

Delaware Indians.

Delaware Indians--Pictorial works.

Indian art--Exhibitions.

Indian art.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

95 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Distribution:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

Place of Publication:

Doylestown, Pennsylvania : James A. Michener Art Museum, 2024.

Summary:

"Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories considers the power of art to construct and dismantle inaccurate Indigenous histories through a dynamic display of contemporary art by Lenape (also called Delaware) artists in dialogue with historic Lenape ceramics, beadwork, and other cultural objects and representations of Penn's Treaty by European American artists. The exhibition features recent and newly commissioned work by Ahchipaptunhe (Delaware Tribe of Indians and Cherokee), Joe Baker (Delaware Tribe of Indians), Holly Wilson (Delaware Nation and Cherokee), and Nathan Young (Delaware Tribe of Indians, Pawnee, and Kiowa) that express personal and tribal identity and address the Lenape's violent displacement from Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland which encompasses the region where the Michener Art Museum currently stands. Through a focus on Lenape art and culture and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, Never Broken demonstrates the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword and acknowledgments / Vail P. Garvin

Introduction / Joe Baker and Laura Turner Igoe

Penn's treaty with the Indians : myth-making across media / Laura Turner Igoe

Never broken : violence and the forced removals of the Lenape / Joel Whitney

Nèk Elànkumàchi Maehëleyok : the relatives gathered / Joe Baker.

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories, presented at the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, from September 9, 2023, to January 14, 2024" -- colophon.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

1879636166

9781879636163

OCLC:

1402246782