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Digital Expression
Virgil Ortiz carries one story, Revolt 1680/2180, across a screenplay, photography, digital art, and garments “brought to life for the big screen.” Weeks 3–5 asked how land, data, and food move online and still belong to a people. These works answer the same way: the screen is art when the nation, or the artist, is the one shaping it.
- Ortiz, Inside Indigenous Futurisms; INFO 353
For Native American Heritage Month 2021, Google’s homepage was an interactive Doodle drawn by Zuni Pueblo artist Mallery Quetawki. You try a loom while the late We:wa’s story plays. Juanita Edaakie and Loretta Beyuka of the Zuni Olla Maidens made the music. A homepage can be a gallery, a game, and a memorial at once.
- Google Doodle (2021, Nov. 1)
Powwow Bound is the game-as-art in this map: a free 3D story in the browser or on Steam. The Woodland Bowl, Vendors’ Row, and the lake lot are rebuilt so a player can walk a present-day Menominee place. Beadwork, appliqué, and woodland floral art are designed into that digital space, and credited.
PBS Wisconsin; Powwow Bound credits
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Healing, critique and futures,
McKnight’s repeating diamonds stand for healing practices and for ancestors that “reverberate deep within our bodies.” Young says ceremonial dance can protect a community. Cheanie Noai, a Kaqchikel Maya artist and parent, wants children to meet death with songs, candles, and the line “I will always be with you.” The family’s dance for a grandfather is that kind of art: grief held in public, with relatives.
- McKnight, Young, and Noai, in Luong (2022)
Ortiz retells the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in 1680 and again in 2180. He calls it “the first American Revolution against foreign colonizers,” and writes that sci-fi and post-apocalyptic stories “are often reality for Indigenous communities.” Young asks for cities “remediated to their natural state” and for land returned. The game’s critique is quieter: it answers a medium with few honest Indigenous depictions by showing a Menominee family now.
- Ortiz; Young, in Luong (2022); Schwitzer (2025)
Luong’s editors refuse a heritage month that is only history. Native people “continue to live, grow, and carry forward their culture.” Ortiz uses science fiction to pass on oral history and language. Powwow Bound’s present is the annual contest powwow, the tribal college, and the forest the nation still manages. I meet all of this on a screen I already live on. The ask is to meet living artists there, and to leave their names on the work.
- Luong (2022); Ortiz; Nebraska Public Media
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