Mohawk Rebel : Shelley Niro's Art and New York State
(2025)

Nonfiction

eBook

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : State University of New York Press, 2025
Made available through hoopla
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1 online resource (260 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9798855800913 MWT18413674, 18413674
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mohawk Rebel is an in-depth exploration of one of North America's most important Indigenous artists. Claire Raymond's compelling and well-researched book connects Niro's lineage as a Turtle Clan woman to the artist's oeuvre that evokes and represents the Mohawk people's memory of and continuing relationship to the land now called New York State. With profound allegorical and metaphorical power, Niro's virtuosic photographic and filmic works create layered temporal tapestries that weave the past and present in a new vision. The book offers fresh interpretations of many of Niro's best-known works and brings into view some of her earlier lesser-known works. Raymond's sensitive and nuanced interpretations of Niro's art ultimately contend that Niro's work agitates subtly but unmistakably for the ethical rightness of the land-back movement. Raymond eloquently argues that this Mohawk artist's relationship to New York State is one of rightful claim

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