BOUNDLESS: Native American Abundance in Art and Literature

Boundless expands conversations on Native and Indigenous art and literature by presenting words and images in kinship. Starting in the collections of the Mead Art Museum and the Collection of Native American Literature at Amherst College and centered on the creative production of Native peoples of the Northeast, the project follows relationships between Indigenous authors and artists across the United States and beyond borders.

Boundless Exhibition

RACHEL’S WRITINGS

  • Thanksgiving(s)

    BOUNDLESS: NATIVE AMERICAN ABUNDANCE IN ART AND LITERATURE

    Amherst College Press

    “Rachel Beth Sayet is a scholar who served as the Five Colleges Community Development Fellow, Native American and Indigenous Studies. She is Mohegan. This essay is excerpted and revised from “Wikôtamuwôk Wuci Ki tà Kihtahan (A Celebration of Land and Sea): Modern Indigenous Cuisine in New England” published on the web-based magazine Dawnland Voices, Issue 4, May 9, 2017.”

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  • Wikôtamuwôk Wuci Ki tà Kihtahan (A Celebration of Land and Sea): Modern Indigenous Cuisine in New England

    DAWNLAND VOICES, ISSUE 4

    Dawnland Voices 2.0: Indigenous Writing from New England and the Northeast

    “New England Natives (i) are often overlooked due to their long history of colonization and assimilation, and therefore, the myth of the “vanishing Indian” is most prominent there. Many Americans only learn about the “first Thanksgiving,” and then Natives in New England disappear from history. However, the Native people of New England never truly “vanished,” and many cultures have flourished throughout the region’s complex history. “

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