{"id":12315,"date":"2021-06-02T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2021-06-02T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T23:31:00","slug":"museum-wont-verify-claims-of-tribal-ancestry-after-artists-withdraw-from-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/02\/museum-wont-verify-claims-of-tribal-ancestry-after-artists-withdraw-from-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum won&#8217;t verify claims of tribal ancestry after artists withdraw from show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\">\r\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2T-mgzV3OY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">U.S. Department of the Interior: <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/n2T-mgzV3OY>Secretary Deb Haaland on supporting Indian artists and the Indian Arts and Crafts Act<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Museum won&#8217;t verify claims of tribal ancestry after artists withdraw from show<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Native women raised alarms about   exhibition in Massachusetts<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, June 2, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Acee Agoyo<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrustees.org\/place\/fruitlands-museum\/\">Fruitlands Museum<\/a> in eastern Massachusetts doesn&#8217;t plan on verifying whether the artists it works with have connections to the tribes they claim even after two individuals withdrew from a new show.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gina_Adams\">Gina Adams<\/a>, who claims to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecuad.ca\/news\/2021\/gina-adams-broken-treaty-medallions-help-create-change-through-awareness\">Ojibwe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecuad.ca\/news\/2020\/gina-adams-talks-colonial-erasure-in-sports-in-art-object\">Lakota<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/flashbanggiveaway.com\">Merritt Johnson<\/a>, who claims to be Mohawk, removed  their works from   <a href=https:\/\/thetrustees.org\/exhibit\/echoesintime\/>\u201cEchoes in Time: New Interpretations of the Fruitlands Museum Collection\u201d<\/a>   when questions were raised about their tribal affiliations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2021\/05\/31\/arts\/should-museums-verify-claims-indigenous-ancestry-fruitlands-show-postponed-over-this-profoundly-divisive-issue\/\">The Boston Globe<\/a> first reported in a story posted online on Tuesday. Neither are enrolled with any of the Indian nations they claim but a  director at the facility doesn&#8217;t  plan on changing how  such matters are handled.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cI personally would not, nor would I recommend a curator call the tribe to verify,\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrustees.org\/press-release\/jessica-may-appointed-managing-director-of-art-exhibitions-artistic-director-decordova-sculpture-park-and-museum\/\">Jessica May<\/a>, the  managing director of art and exhibitions at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrustees.org\/place\/fruitlands-museum\/\">Fruitlands Museum<\/a>, told The Globe.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cI expect that if they claim that identity as their own, they are doing so truthfully,\u201d May told the paper.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Native American artists want the Fruitlands Museum to scrutinize artist and co-curator Gina Adams\u2019s account of Ojibwe heritage. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XniRAcvfqC\">https:\/\/t.co\/XniRAcvfqC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BostonGlobe\/status\/1399713258534326272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nEven though Adams, who is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecuad.ca\/news\/2021\/gina-adams-broken-treaty-medallions-help-create-change-through-awareness\">assistant  professor<\/a> and an <a href=http:\/\/blogs.eciad.ca\/foundation\/join-gina-adams-assistant-dean-for-a-warm-drink-and-conversation\/>assistant dean at Emily Carr University<\/a> in Canada, withdrew her  works, she is still credited as a co-curator of the show, which opens on Saturday. The way Fruitlands has handled the matter doesn&#8217;t sit well with the Native  women who   raised concerns about the exhibition, The Globe reported.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cI think they totally dropped the ball,\u201d <a href=https:\/\/hma.brown.edu\/people\/leah-hopkins-narragansett>Leah  Hopkins<\/a>, a citizen of the <a href=\"http:\/\/narragansettindiannation.org\">Narragansett Tribe<\/a> who is an administrator at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hma.brown.edu\">Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University<\/a>, told the paper. \u201cI\u2019ve seen this happen so many times. It\u2019s 2021. We\u2019ve got to get with it.\u201d\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nAlthough   Hopkins  serves on the Fruitlands Museum\u2019s Native American Advisory Team, she told the paper that  she was never informed  about   \u201cEchoes in Time\u201d   in the first place. She  didn&#8217;t know  Adams was involved either, The Globe reported.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cWe were completely in the dark about this,\u201d  Hopkins told the paper of the four-person Native advisory team. Two other Native women  also approached the Fruitlands Museum about the show, The Globe reported.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nAdams claims to be related to  two Ojibwe leaders who signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/treatiesmatter.org\/treaties\/land\/1867-ojibwe\">Treaty with the Chippewa of the Mississippi in 1867<\/a>. She created a \u201cBroken Treaty Quilt\u201d in memory of her purported ancestors.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cThe Treaty with the Chippewa of the Mississippi 1867 Broken Treaty Quilt has deep meaning to our family as our great great grandfather Waabaanaquot signed the treaty, as did a great great uncle Mishugiiziguk,\u201d Adams says in an <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/BrokenTreatyMedallionStatement.pdf>artist&#8217;s statement<\/a>. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=row><div class=col-6>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-attachment-id=\"12331\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/02\/museum-wont-verify-claims-of-tribal-ancestry-after-artists-withdraw-from-show\/ginaadamstreatyquilt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadamstreatyquilt-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1615117932&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ginaadamstreatyquilt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadamstreatyquilt-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadamstreatyquilt-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12331\" \/>\r\n<\/div><div class=col-6>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-attachment-id=\"12332\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/02\/museum-wont-verify-claims-of-tribal-ancestry-after-artists-withdraw-from-show\/ginaadamsojibwe1956\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadamsojibwe1956-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1615117941&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.090909090909091&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ginaadamsojibwe1956\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadamsojibwe1956-768x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadamsojibwe1956-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12332\" \/>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A work by Gina Adams at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art was  marked as being available  through a commercial art gallery. The facility identified  Adams as \u201cOjibwe\u201d  and    born in 1965 as part of  a show that closed on May 31, 2021. Photo by Indianz.Com <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nShe further  indicated in her statement that she \u201cdiscovered\u201d  her supposed connections to the Ojibwe treaty signatories after winning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/sarf\">Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship<\/a>. She carried out  her studies in 2016 at  the Natural History Museum and the  National Museum of the American Indian, <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadamscvcurriculumvitae.pdf\">according to her resume<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe signatories of the 1867 treaty include  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wabanquot_(Chippewa_chief)\">Wau-bon-a-quot<\/a> and  <a href=https:\/\/hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu\/objects\/2018.16.1>Mijaw-ke-ke-shik<\/a>,  according to  a <a href=https:\/\/dc.library.okstate.edu\/digital\/collection\/kapplers\/id\/26815\/rec\/3>treaty volume<\/a>. Negotiations were completed  in Washington, D.C., in March of that year and the government-to-government agreement was ratified and proclaimed a month later.\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nWau-bon-a-quot  was  known as a  leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/whiteearth.com\">White Earth Nation<\/a>, one of the federally recognized Ojibwe tribes in present-day Minnesota. Despite repeatedly boasting a connection to the treaty signer,  Adams has acknowledged to allies that she is not a citizen of the tribe, The Globe reported.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cI\u2019ve worked with Gina in the past and she has always been straightforward, candid, and transparent about her identity,\u201d May  of the  Fruitlands Museum told the paper. \u201cShe\u2019s not enrolled in a tribe and she\u2019s never said she was enrolled.\u201d \r\n<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\n And while <a href=\"https:\/\/ofi.si.edu\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/zhaabwiiwin-weaving-the-past-into-the-present\/\">Adams has discussed<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/113442683\">numerous occasions<\/a>  her  supposed Ojibwe heritage, she does not explain her connection to  the treaty signer  other than to  assert  that her grandfather  &#8212; her mother&#8217;s father, she <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brooklynmuseum\/videos\/588585045096853>recounts in a  Brooklyn Museum video<\/a> &#8212;  was  supposedly taken from the White Earth Nation at the age of 8 and sent to the <a href=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlisle_Indian_Industrial_School>Carlisle Indian Industrial School<\/a> in Pennsylvania.   She says her grandfather  \u201cnever returned\u201d to his alleged place of origin.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cMy grandfather used to call it \u2018White man training school,\u2019\u201d Adams says of Carlisle  in a <a href=https:\/\/vimeo.com\/113442683>video created<\/a> for the <a href=https:\/\/www.stadt-zuerich.ch\/nonam>Nordamerika Native Museum<\/a> in Switzerland. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIn the Brooklyn Museum video from May 2020, Adams says her maternal grandfather stayed at Carlisle for 10 years,  until he was \u201croughly 18 years old.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cHe never returned to the reservation,\u201d she says at around 10 minutes into the  virtual presentation. \u201cHe was seen as one of the  model students. He went into the Navy and then he became an organic  farmer in southern Maine. \u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"620\" data-attachment-id=\"12352\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/02\/museum-wont-verify-claims-of-tribal-ancestry-after-artists-withdraw-from-show\/ginaadams\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadams.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"930,620\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ginaadams\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;http:\/\/blogs.eciad.ca\/foundation\/join-gina-adams-assistant-dean-for-a-warm-drink-and-conversation\/&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadams.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadams.jpg\" alt=\"ginaadams\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12352\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">In 2021, Emily Carr University of Art + Design   announced Gina Adams as Assistant Dean of Foundation. Photo: <a href=<a href=http:\/\/blogs.eciad.ca\/foundation\/join-gina-adams-assistant-dean-for-a-warm-drink-and-conversation\/> ECUAD<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe Carlisle  boarding school school operated from  1879 through 1918. It was founded by U.S. Army general Richard Henry Pratt, who advocated for a genocidal   <a href=\"https:\/\/explorepahistory.com\/viewLesson.php?id=1-D-45\">\u201cKill the Indian &#8212; Save the Man\u201d approach<\/a> when educating Native children.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<a href=http:\/\/carlisleindian.dickinson.edu>Records kept by Dickinson College<\/a> show that  a number of  Ojibwe  children   from Minnesota attended Carlisle during the time it was open.  But with Adams\u2019 maternal  grandfather being two generations removed from Wau-bon-a-quot, who was born around 1830 and died in 1898, the timeframe for his supposed  placement at the boarding school does not appear to match up.   \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nSimilarly, Adams at times has <a href=\"https:\/\/sma-neh-landmark.ku.edu\/gina-adams\">claimed to  be \u201cLakota\u201d<\/a>  but  <a href=https:\/\/indiancountrytoday.com\/archive\/stitch-time-broken-treaties-quilts-gina-adams>little information<\/a> exists as to which other Indian nation she claims. Still, her  stories  have led to her works being   featured and displayed by numerous institutions, including the  Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, where she was <a href=\"https:\/\/crystalbridges.org\/blog\/celebrating-women-artists-in-crafting-america\/\">identified as &#8220;Ojibwe&#8221;<\/a> and born in 1965;  the Museum of Fine Arts   in Massachusetts, where one of her pieces was <a href=https:\/\/www.mfa.org\/give\/gifts-art\/heritage-fund>acquired through a \u201cdiverse collection\u201d fund<\/a>; and <a href=https:\/\/hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu\/objects\/2018.16.1>Dartmouth College<\/a>, whose original mission was to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dartmouth_College\">educate Native students<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKGz6YBl6j7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKGz6YBl6j7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Accola Griefen Fine Art (@accolagriefen)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nA number  of her works are marketed as being available for sale, raising questions about compliance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/iacb\">Indian Arts and Crafts Act<\/a> of 1990. The federal law   requires works  marketed as   Native   to have been produced by a Native artisan, which is <a href=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Arts_and_Crafts_Act_of_1990>defined as a citizen<\/a> of a federally- or state-recognized  tribe, or by an artist certified as such  by a tribal nation.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n&#8220;Under the Indian Arts and Crafts Act it is illegal to market art or craft products in a manner that falsely suggests it is Native American produced if it is not,&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDebHaaland\">Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland<\/a>, who is the first Native person to serve in a presidential cabinet, says in a <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/n2T-mgzV3OY>video in support of Indian  artists<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAn individual     who  was quoted in The Globe article  <a href=http:\/\/accolagriefen.com\/artists\/gina-adams>represents Adams<\/a> in the  <a href=http:\/\/accolagriefen.com\/about>commercial  art market<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nOne of the Native women who raised questions about the Fruitland Museum  show in fact asked the other co-curator, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shaygarmont\">Shana Dumont Garr<\/a>,  whether the federal law was taken into account.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\u201cI asked Shana if she\u2019d done any due diligence, if she\u2019d followed the Indian Arts and Crafts Act and checked what [Adams\u2019s] tribal enrollment or status is, and she said she had not,\u201d Erin Genia, a citizen  of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swo-nsn.gov\">Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate<\/a>, told The Globe.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAs for Johnson, she too admits that she is not enrolled in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srmt-nsn.gov\">St. Regis Mohawk Tribe<\/a>, based in New York, or with any of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akwesasne\">Mohawk Nations<\/a> across the border in Canada.  Her biography asserts  that she is \u201cnot claimed by, nor a citizen of any nation from which she descends.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJ7SLEblOMc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJ7SLEblOMc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <div style=\" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\"> <div style=\"background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJ7SLEblOMc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Accola Griefen Fine Art (@accolagriefen)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nA recent   virtual talk which was to feature Johnson and her work, which relies heavily on her experience as a person of  \u201cmixed\u201d  ancestry, was <a href=https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/galleries\/SFUGalleriesEvents\/2021\/LiberatedBodies.html>marked as \u201cCANCELLED\u201d by Simon Fraser University<\/a> Like the educational institution  where Adams   works as a professor,  SFU is located in the province of   British Columbia in  Canada. Johnson is also <a href=http:\/\/accolagriefen.com\/artists\/merritt-johnson>represented by Accola Griefen Fine Art<\/a>, the same as Adams.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nEmily Carr University described  Adams\u2019 hiring in 2019 as a means of    \u201cIndigenizing\u201d the campus.   She was touted   as one of   <a href=https:\/\/www.ecuad.ca\/news\/2019\/emily-carr-university-hires-four-new-permanent-indigenous-faculty-members> four full-time Indigenous faculty members<\/a> at the time.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe \u201cEchoes in Time\u201d show in Massachusetts features \u201csixteen contemporary artists of Indigenous descent from throughout North America,\u201d according to the Fruitlands Museum website. Participants include:\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-5>\r\nNorman Akers (Osage)<BR>\r\nMarwin Begaye (Din\u00e9\/Navajo)<BR> Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute)<BR> Betsey Garand (French Canadian, English, Abenaki)<BR> Brenda Garand (French Canadian, English, Abenaki)<BR> Mimi Gellman (Anishinaabe\/Ojibwe, Ashkenazi Jewish, Metis)<BR> Margaret Jacobs (Akwesasne Mohawk)<BR> George Longfish (Seneca, Tuscarosa)<BR> Jacob Meders (Mechoopda\/Maidu)<BR> Dillen Peace (Din\u00e9\/Navajo)<BR> Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel (Ioway)<BR> Theresa Secord (Penobscot)<BR> Alicia Smith (Xicana)<BR> Alana Tapaha (Din\u00e9 \/Navajo)<BR> Summer Zah (Navajo, Jicarilla Apache, Choctaw)\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe exhibit runs through December 6.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two artists who admit they aren&#8217;t enrolled in any tribal nation have still managed to find their way into museums and educational institutions.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,18,20,13,1,14],"tags":[418,1488,88,118,121,1629,1626,1623,1624,1627,470,1625,992,490,1421,672,47,1628,220,154,1141,44],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-canada","category-education","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-boarding-schools","tag-british-columbia","tag-deb-haaland","tag-doi","tag-employment","tag-erin-genia","tag-gina-adams","tag-iaca","tag-iacb","tag-leah-hopkins","tag-massachusetts","tag-merritt-johnson","tag-mohawk","tag-museums","tag-narragansett","tag-nmai","tag-race","tag-sisseton-wahpeton","tag-sovereignty","tag-treaties","tag-white-earth","tag-women","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/02\/ginaadams.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-3cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}