Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds’s Artwork
Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds’s Artwork
“Native Peoples Have Chosen Art as Their Cultural Tool and Weapon”
Cheyenne conceptual artist Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds makes word paintings, abstract paintings, and public art installations. This chapter considers Heap of Birds’s focus on memory, history, and community as central to his self and community-formulation. Through his artwork using image and text, he contributes to the ongoing project of decolonization: making visible a history of Native erasure and appropriating settler-colonial discourses of place and time, first steps in articulating a contemporary, collective, and sovereign Native identity.
Keywords: Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Word Paintings, Conceptual Art, Cheyenne, Settler-Colonial, Decolonization
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