INDIANacts: Aboriginal Performance Art

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Dana Claxton
Dana Claxton Cultural Protection, what it means to be a cultural protectionist. 3:38

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Anthony McNab Favel
Panel 2, Blondeau, Maskegon-Iskwew: Trauma. Discusses "how do you contend with the violence of making art?" 4:45

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Dana Claxton, Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, Lori Blondeau, Anthony McNab Favel
Panel 2, Maskegon-Iskwew discusses Refugee Children, who lost their histories and their ceremonies. 2:08

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Dana Claxton, Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, Lori Blondeau, Anthony McNab Favel
Panel 2: Blondeau, Maskegon-Iskwew discuss Hollywood and the pedagogy of the oppressed. 2:57

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Day 2: November 30, 2002

Panel #2: Unregenerated Action, Ritual, Offerings

Moderator: Dana Claxton
Speakers: Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, Lori Blondeau, Anthony McNab Favel

Quote:
“And my struggle has been to try to find a way, a path, to find the medicine of joy and the medicine of love. So much… I think that’s why I quit doing performance art. Because I didn’t know whether or not I was really capable of helping people find that path. Because I certainly knew that I was putting myself more and more into greater and greater danger.”
— Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew, INDIANacts conference, November 30, 2002.