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contemporaneity-239	Molldrem Harkulich, Christiana	Gregg Deal's White Indian (2016): The Decolonial Possibilities of Museum Performance	2018	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3577	167	46	Indigenous narratives have been mostly told in history and natural history museums, and curation has changed tremendously in the past few decades by incorporating Indigenous community members into the creation of both the narrative and display.1 In art museums, Euro- American artistic portrayals of Indigenous people often echo the visuals of the “last of” trope, and they need additional context to dismantle the narrative, which many museums have done.2 The work of decolonization, the process of undoing the process of colonization and working with Indigenous peoples to move forward, requires that museums engage with telling hard truths about the history of colonization—a push to remember and not forget the darker episodes of American history.3 Across both visual and performance art, Deal’s works focuses on the ways that Indigenous people survive and resist the legacies of colonization that impact Indigenous people in the United States. http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu/ Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu Vol 7, No 1 (2018) | ISSN 2153-5914 (online) | DOI 10.5195/contemp/2018.239 On January 29, 2016, Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute, born 1975) performed White Indian as the culmination of his three-month residency at the Denver Art Museum (DAM).	cache/contemporaneity-239.pdf	txt/contemporaneity-239.txt