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Miss Chief and the Art of Decolonial Tease

The Mixedblood Urban Earthdiver and the Flâneur

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George Catlin, Shón-ka, The Dog, Chief of the Bad Arrow Points Band Western Sioux/Lakota, 1832, oil on canvas, 73.7 × 60.9 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs Joseph Harrison, Jr, Creative Commons Zero license

George Catlin, Shón-ka, The Dog, Chief of the Bad Arrow Points Band Western Sioux/Lakota, 1832, oil on canvas, 73.7 × 60.9 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs Joseph Harrison, Jr, Creative Commons Zero license

Kent Monkman, Dance to Miss Chief, 2010, video, 04:49 minutes, colour, English and German with English Subtitles, An Urban Nation Production, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Dance to Miss Chief, 2010, video, 04:49 minutes, colour, English and German with English Subtitles, An Urban Nation Production, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Trappers of Men 2006, acrylic on canvas image, 262 × 415 × 9 cm, Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, anonymous gift and gift of Dr Ian Hutchinson, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Trappers of Men 2006, acrylic on canvas image, 262 × 415 × 9 cm, Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, anonymous gift and gift of Dr Ian Hutchinson, image courtesy of the artist

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868, oil on canvas, 183 × 305 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, granddaughter of William Brown Dinsmore, who acquired the painting in 1873 for ‘The Locusts’, the family estate in Duchess County, New York, Creative Commons Zero licence

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868, oil on canvas, 183 × 305 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, granddaughter of William Brown Dinsmore, who acquired the painting in 1873 for ‘The Locusts’, the family estate in Duchess County, New York, Creative Commons Zero licence

Kent Monkman, Trappers of Men, detail, 2006, acrylic on canvas image, 262 × 415 × 9 cm, Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, anonymous gift and gift of Dr Ian Hutchinson, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Trappers of Men, detail, 2006, acrylic on canvas image, 262 × 415 × 9 cm, Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, anonymous gift and gift of Dr Ian Hutchinson, image courtesy of the artist

George Catlin, James Ackerman, Wi-jun-jon. An Assinneboin Chief., n.d., hand-coloured lithograph on paper, 44.4 × 30.3 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr

George Catlin, James Ackerman, Wi-jun-jon. An Assinneboin Chief., n.d., hand-coloured lithograph on paper, 44.4 × 30.3 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr

William Fisk, George Catlin, 1849, oil on canvas, 158.8 × 133.4 × 7 cm, National Portrait Gallery, London, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Miss May C Kinney, Ernest C Kinney and Bradford Wickes, 1945, Creative Commons Zero license

William Fisk, George Catlin, 1849, oil on canvas, 158.8 × 133.4 × 7 cm, National Portrait Gallery, London, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Miss May C Kinney, Ernest C Kinney and Bradford Wickes, 1945, Creative Commons Zero license

Kent Monkman, Trappers of Men, detail, 2006, acrylic on canvas, image, 262 × 415 × 9 cm, Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, anonymous gift and gift of Dr Ian Hutchinson, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Trappers of Men, detail, 2006, acrylic on canvas, image, 262 × 415 × 9 cm, Collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest, anonymous gift and gift of Dr Ian Hutchinson, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Casualties of Modernity, 2015, mixed media installation, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, photo of the installation at the BMO Project Room by Tony Hafkenscheid, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Casualties of Modernity, 2015, mixed media installation, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, photo of the installation at the BMO Project Room by Tony Hafkenscheid, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Casualties of Modernity, 2015, video still, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, image courtesy of the artist

Kent Monkman, Casualties of Modernity, 2015, video still, Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, image courtesy of the artist