Knowing Native Arts environment Pokagon s novel Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki

Pokagon s novel Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods) only the second ever published by an American Indian appeared

from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N

and essays by fellow artist Andrea Carlson and curator Robert Cozzolino

As a young girl

Knowing Native Arts environment Pokagon s novel Ogimawkwe MitigwakiKnowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo's Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus. These musings, written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self determination, are a critical appraisal of a system that is often broken for Native peoples seeking equity in the arts. Mithlo addresses crucial issues, such