Abstract
In the early twentieth century, the US’s federal policies regarding the production of Native American art in off-reservation Indian boarding schools shifted from suppression to active encouragement. Seen as a path to economic stability, school administrators pushed their students to capitalize on the artistic traditions of Native cultures, without acknowledging or valuing these traditions as part of an extensive body of Indigenous knowledge. Although this push contributed to the retention of some cultural practices, administrators, teachers, and other members of the local community often exploited the students’ talents to make a profit. At Sherman Institute (now Sherman Indian High School) in Riverside, California, Native students of today are free to creatively express their own cultures in ways that strengthen their communities and promote tribal sovereignty. In this article, I will argue that the art program at Sherman Institute served to extinguish Indigenous knowledge and expertise as expressed through culturally specific weaving practices.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Articles
- Indigenous Knowledges in North America: An Introduction
- Contemporary Art Practice and Indigenous Knowledge
- Marianne Nicolson’s Land-Based Knowledgescape Cliff Painting
- Invocations of Indigeneity in the Colonial Red/White/Black Triad
- First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology
- Profit and Loss: ‘Indian’ Art at Sherman Institute, a Native American Off-Reservation Boarding School
- The ‘Fast Runner’ Trilogy, Inuit Cultural Memory, and Knowledge (Re-)Production
- Unusual Alliances of Knowledge Production: A Reading of Disney’s Frozen 2
- Book Reviews
- Herman Melville
- Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author
- The Kitchen and the Factory: Spaces of Women’s Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature
- Books Received
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Articles
- Indigenous Knowledges in North America: An Introduction
- Contemporary Art Practice and Indigenous Knowledge
- Marianne Nicolson’s Land-Based Knowledgescape Cliff Painting
- Invocations of Indigeneity in the Colonial Red/White/Black Triad
- First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology
- Profit and Loss: ‘Indian’ Art at Sherman Institute, a Native American Off-Reservation Boarding School
- The ‘Fast Runner’ Trilogy, Inuit Cultural Memory, and Knowledge (Re-)Production
- Unusual Alliances of Knowledge Production: A Reading of Disney’s Frozen 2
- Book Reviews
- Herman Melville
- Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author
- The Kitchen and the Factory: Spaces of Women’s Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature
- Books Received