Indigeneity

Relevance:

Relevance:

- Leverages engagement with art to unpack how we understand race and the ways in which it is framed socially, historically, politically, and culturally

- Promotes the exploration of the intersections between representation (and self-representation) in visual culture and equitable practices in various spaces

- Challenges students to draw connections between historical systems of classification that facilitated the oppression of large groups of people and power and those in place today

- Enhances visual literacy and observation skills, providing students with skills needed to grasp all available information and form well-rounded conclusions

Subthemes:

- Mythology & Colonialism & Settler Colonialism

- Self-Presentation & Identity & Survivance

- Representation of the "Other" (Representations by Non-Indigenous Artists)