Native North American Art Book

Ch. 1	An Introduction to the Indigenous Arts of North America	1
	Art history and Native art	3
	What is 'art'? Western discourses and Native American objects	7
	Modes of appreciation: curiosity, specimen, artefact, and art	9
	What is an Indian? Clan, community, political structure, and art	17
	Cosmology	21
	The map of the cosmos	22
	The nature of spirit	24
	Dreams and the vision quest	25
	Shamanism	26
	Art and the public celebration of power	26
	The power of personal adornment	27
	'Creativity is our tradition': innovation and tradition in Native American art	28
	Gender and the making of art	32
Ch. 2	The Southwest	37
	The Southwest as a region	37
	The ancient world	40
	From the colonial era to the modern Pueblos	47
	Navajo and Apache arts	60
Ch. 3	The East	71
	The East as a region	71
	Hunting cultures, burial practices, and Early Woodlands art forms	74
	Mississippian art and culture	79
	The cataclysm of contact: the Southeast	86
	The early contact period in the Northeast	88
	Arts of the middle ground	90
	Arts of self-adornment	94
Ch. 4	The West	107
	Introduction	107
	The Great Plains	112
	The Intermontaine region - an artistic crossroads	130
	The Far West: arts of California and the Great Basin	133
Ch. 5	The North	139
	Geography, environment, and language in the North	142
	Sub-arctic clothing: art to honour and protect	144
	The Arctic	152
Ch. 6	The Northwest Coast	173
	Origins	173
	The early contact period	181
	Styles and techniques	183
	Western connoisseurship and Northwest Coast art	188
	Shamanism	190
	Crest art	194
	The potlatch	198
	Art, commodity, and oral tradition	202
	Northwest Coast art in the twentieth century	204
Ch. 7	The Twentieth Century: Trends in Modern Native Art	209
	Questions of definition	209
	Commoditization and contemporary art	210
	Moments of beginning	213
	The Southern Plains and the Kiowa Five	215
	The Southwest and the 'Studio' style	217
	The display and marketing of American Indian art: exhibitions, mural projects, and competitions	218
	Native American modernisms, 1950-80	220
	Institutional frameworks and modernisms in Canada	227
	Postmodernism, installation, and other post-studio art	234
	Notes	240
	List of Illustrations	247
	Bibliographic Essay	254
	Index	282