March 24th, 2011 by Nancy Rosoff
Recently, the New York Times published a highly critical review of the Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains exhibition. As one of its main points of contention, the review questions the relevance of contemporary Native American art in an exhibition about the tipi and Plains art and culture....
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August 20th, 2007 by Nancy Rosoff
As we prepare for the Brooklyn Museum’s tipi exhibition, I am in Billings, Montana attending the 2007 Crow Fair with my colleague Susan Kennedy Zeller. Here are a few images from the morning parade and the Grand Entry to the Powwow which took place on August 17, 2007. Participants in the...
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August 9th, 2007 by Nancy Rosoff
In the popular imagination, the tipi has come to represent a common stereotype about how all Native American people used to live. In truth, however, it is a specific cultural expression of the Native peoples of the Great Plains region of North America: the primary means by which they organized...
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