Jessica L. Horton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware and author of Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation, also published by Duke University Press.

“Jessica L. Horton persuasively shows how the lectures, teaching, performances, and works of Native American artists can be seen as a continuation of deep traditions of ‘earth diplomacy’ through which Indigenous peoples have long affirmed the reciprocal relationships between humans and nonhumans. Designed to maintain and restore harmony and peace, these political and spiritual practices through art constitute diplomacy in its most essential sense. Horton’s highly original intervention is particularly powerful in the present moment, as we grapple with environmental collapse.” - Ruth B. Phillips, author of (Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums) “Jessica L. Horton offers a significant rupture to conventional art historical discourse in relation to the roles played by Indigenous artists during a pivotal twenty-year period during the Cold War. By shifting analysis outside of a governmental and colonially structured understanding, Horton brings much-needed attention to other methods of understanding diplomacy that respectfully and responsibly narrate Indigenous arts and artists in agential ways. With her impressive engagement with archival materials and artworks, Horton makes an important contribution to the literature of Indigenous art history.” - Carmen L. Robertson, author of (Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Contested Kinship: More-than-Human Relations or the Family of Man?  352. Rebalancing Power: DinÉ Sandpainting and Sand Mining  803. Earth Mothers: DinÉ Weaving and Trans-Indigenous Ecofeminism  1204. Tipis and Domes: Modeling the Blackfeet Cosmos at a World Fair  1625. The Truth-Line: Oscar Howe's Sacred Pipe Modernism  217Conclusion: Artist-Diplomat-Vampire  269Notes  279Bibliography  329Index  365

Jessica L. Horton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware and author of Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation, also published by Duke University Press.

“Jessica L. Horton persuasively shows how the lectures, teaching, performances, and works of Native American artists can be seen as a continuation of deep traditions of ‘earth diplomacy’ through which Indigenous peoples have long affirmed the reciprocal relationships between humans and nonhumans. Designed to maintain and restore harmony and peace, these political and spiritual practices through art constitute diplomacy in its most essential sense. Horton’s highly original intervention is particularly powerful in the present moment, as we grapple with environmental collapse.” - Ruth B. Phillips, author of (Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums) “Jessica L. Horton offers a significant rupture to conventional art historical discourse in relation to the roles played by Indigenous artists during a pivotal twenty-year period during the Cold War. By shifting analysis outside of a governmental and colonially structured understanding, Horton brings much-needed attention to other methods of understanding diplomacy that respectfully and responsibly narrate Indigenous arts and artists in agential ways. With her impressive engagement with archival materials and artworks, Horton makes an important contribution to the literature of Indigenous art history.” - Carmen L. Robertson, author of (Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Contested Kinship: More-than-Human Relations or the Family of Man?  352. Rebalancing Power: DinÉ Sandpainting and Sand Mining  803. Earth Mothers: DinÉ Weaving and Trans-Indigenous Ecofeminism  1204. Tipis and Domes: Modeling the Blackfeet Cosmos at a World Fair  1625. The Truth-Line: Oscar Howe's Sacred Pipe Modernism  217Conclusion: Artist-Diplomat-Vampire  269Notes  279Bibliography  329Index  365

Jessica L. Horton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware and author of Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation, also published by Duke University Press.

“Jessica L. Horton persuasively shows how the lectures, teaching, performances, and works of Native American artists can be seen as a continuation of deep traditions of ‘earth diplomacy’ through which Indigenous peoples have long affirmed the reciprocal relationships between humans and nonhumans. Designed to maintain and restore harmony and peace, these political and spiritual practices through art constitute diplomacy in its most essential sense. Horton’s highly original intervention is particularly powerful in the present moment, as we grapple with environmental collapse.” - Ruth B. Phillips, author of (Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums) “Jessica L. Horton offers a significant rupture to conventional art historical discourse in relation to the roles played by Indigenous artists during a pivotal twenty-year period during the Cold War. By shifting analysis outside of a governmental and colonially structured understanding, Horton brings much-needed attention to other methods of understanding diplomacy that respectfully and responsibly narrate Indigenous arts and artists in agential ways. With her impressive engagement with archival materials and artworks, Horton makes an important contribution to the literature of Indigenous art history.” - Carmen L. Robertson, author of (Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau: Art and the Colonial Narrative in the Canadian Media)

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction  11. Contested Kinship: More-than-Human Relations or the Family of Man?  352. Rebalancing Power: DinÉ Sandpainting and Sand Mining  803. Earth Mothers: DinÉ Weaving and Trans-Indigenous Ecofeminism  1204. Tipis and Domes: Modeling the Blackfeet Cosmos at a World Fair  1625. The Truth-Line: Oscar Howe's Sacred Pipe Modernism  217Conclusion: Artist-Diplomat-Vampire  269Notes  279Bibliography  329Index  365