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Exhibitions and programs highlighting indigenous voices
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NYPL hosts a variety of exhibitions and programs that showcase indigenous arts, culture, and history. These events range from author talks to major exhibitions featuring indigenous works and perspectives.
- Live from NYPL series has hosted events with indigenous authors and scholars
- Exhibitions like 'Border Crossings' highlighted contributions of indigenous artists to modern dance
- Plans for future exhibitions, including 'Revolution at 250,' which will address indigenous perspectives on American history
Jason Baumann
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Complementing our research collections and activities, there are a number of exhibitions and programs.
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NYPL's premier cultural series, Live from NYPL, which hosts writers, artists, and scholars for conversations and performances, held events that highlight indigenous authors and topics on several occasions.
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In 2023, the series hosted Lenape Center cofounders and co directors Joe Baker, Curtis Iniga, and Hadrian Kumans, along along with Cara Fisher, curator of visual arts programming at Brooklyn Public Library, for a conversation entitled The Land We're On Living, Lenapehoking.
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The 4 speakers discussed the Lenape Center's work, a Lenapehoking anthology, a work that contends with subjects ranging from the myth of the purchase of Manhattan to the self curation of indigenous art and culture.
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In June of last year, the Library for the Performing Arts hosted an exhibition entitled, Border Crossings, Exile in American Modern Dance, 1900 to 1950.
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Border Crossings highlighted the fundamental contributions of artists of color, immigrant, and indigenous communities to the history of modern dance.
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It featured photography, costumes, moving images, and archival objects in an examination of the crucial issues of geopolitical events and structural racism at the heart of American modern dance.
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Additionally, a number of works by artists and makers, indigenous to North America have been displayed in Treasures, our permanent exhibition highlighting our world renowned research collections since it opened in 2021.
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This includes a print by contemporary artist Dakota Mace to a salabary salabary by Sequoia, a member of the Cherokee Nation, recording his language among others.
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In the spring of 2026, NYPL plans to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence with an exhibition entitled Revolution at 2050.
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The exhibition will feature all aspects of the dynamics leading up to and following this historic event.
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This includes the exclusion of women, enslaved people, and indigenous people from those identified as American.
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The center case will also feature documents highlighting the role of Western expansion and Indian removal in the in precipitating the revolution.
