There Is No Word for Museum in My Language: An O'odham View of the Art World
Schedule
Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am
UTC-08:00Location
1680 East 15th Ave., Eugene, OR, United States, Oregon 97403 | Eugene, OR
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Note: start time is 10:00 a.m.Can Indigenous artists, curators, and historians resist the colonial narrative of art museums when the museum itself is a colonizer institution? Reflecting on his own experience visiting the museum on the Gila River Indian Community, David Martínez argues that the path to resistance lay in the land itself.
With David Martínez (Akimel O'odham/Hia-Ced O'odham/Mexican), Professor of American Indian Studies and Transborder Studies, Arizona State University
Cosponsored by Oregon Humanities Center, History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies.
Included with regular admission; free for MNCH members and UO ID card holders. Show your Oregon Trail or other EBT card for an admission discount.
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