indian artists

In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson and Maggi have to make a place for themselves.

"How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way? The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking"--.

"Discusses the arts and music of indigenous peoples from across Canada"--Provided by publisher.

In 1980 life is hard on the Tuscarora Reservation in upstate New York, and most of the teenagers feel like they are going nowhere: Carson Mastick dreams of forming a rock band, and Maggi Bokoni longs to create her own conceptual artwork instead of the traditional beadwork that her family sells to tourists--but tensions are rising between the reservation and the surrounding communities, and somehow in the confusion of politics and growing up Carson and Maggi have to make a place for themselves.

Profiles 400 prominent artists of the 20th century with entries both biographical and critical in nature, complete with exhibition histories and bibliographies.

Emerging and established Native artists, including author Joseph Boyden, visual artist Bunky Echo Hawk, and stand-up comedian Ryan McMahon, contribute thoughtful pieces on their experiences growing up indigenous, expressing them through such mediums as art, food, the written word, sport, dance, and fashion.

Text and photographs detail the lives and art of contemporary Native American artists working in painting, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, and clothing.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that examine the lives and work of seventy twentieth- and twenty-first-century Native American artists, each with a list of places to view the artist's work, and a bibliography; and includes reproductions of selected paintings, sculptures, and photographs.