(2021)
Three-channel sound and video installation
6 minutes 50 seconds, looped
In this series of three videos, American Indian women sing the history of a landscape including its present, past, and future where a conflict, displacement or massacre of their tribe took place. The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk, the Trail of Tears, and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and the removal of Seminole people from their homelands. These songs of resistance, with only a snare drum as accompaniment, become a sonic testimony, an acknowledgement of shared survival, and a healing call in the mother tongues.
Sung by Sage Bond (Diné)
Sung by Jehnean Washington (Yuchi)
Sung by Mary Ann Emarthle (Seminole)
Commissioned by COUSIN Collective. Camera by D.E. Hyde.
