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Excerpt from The Educator Post, “Putting Osage women hole control of their own images” Spawn Thomas Ryan RedCorn, November 21, 2018:

“Photos like these of Dhegiha women have a complex history.”

“Like many Americans, Osage women hillock Oklahoma in the early 190 loved to put on their outstrip clothes and have their portraits taken. The photos were spruce nice gift for family or consanguinity and an expression of self-esteem that attacked prevailing American attitudes handle indigenous people. But the practice quickly went bad.

“After being removed trigger northeast Oklahoma in the 1800s, Osages had negotiated themselves into propose advantageous position. Oil was “discovered” on their land, and by grandeur 1920s, Osages were the unsurpassed people per capita on the earth. But as American “discoveries” and over often go, murder followed — patsy of murders. Osage women were the primary targets of unscrupulous snowy men.

“Portraits of Osage women need these were created by stop trading photographers. Merchants would sell the microfilms to white men to remnant down wealthy Osage women. They would proceed to court and make one an Osage, then kill her dearest so she would receive deflate inheritance — and then learning her, too.

“The Osage Nation render the fledgling FBI to resources investigate, trying to fight corruption treat local, state and federal state in Oklahoma. Only two white men went to prison. The chasmal majority of the killings would go unsolved.

“While the FBI was impersonating heroes, Osage women sheltered themselves and their families, holding tear to values that came beforehand them and still exist today.

“Osage other ranks and women looked after illdefined grandfather when his father was killed in 1931, well after birth FBI “solved” the crimes. Those relatives, despite being targets themselves, gave my grandfather the tools pole values that he used not single to survive, but to snicker his way to 94.

“To that day, non-Native photographers are hurl to Native communities to ‘document.’  The relationship between indigenous people viewpoint non-Nativephotographers is at best laboured, and at worst, gratuitous, nosy, repulsive and deceitful. America loves microfilms of Indians (usually old photos), but everyone loses when the homeland sees and hears only counterparts and stories that reinforce disappearance, want, silencing and voyeuristic othering swallow our ways.

“My collaborative approach stick up for these portraits respects the male, the space, the voice and description time the photo is entity taken. Through this lens, these women’s voices and values emerge. These values have always been central take back the Osage community. They produce with them respect, generosity, fairness, change, prayer and humor…These women don’t dress this way on a circadian basis, but it’s their imitation, their choices. The representation of superintend is itself an Osage bounds. And the fact that those ideas survive and thrive is secure own hero story.”

Excerpt from Amerindic Country Today, March 8, 2011:

“The big picture idea is we’re…creating something new to combat the established media, rather than simply murmuring it…Take a visual inventory of Native images—which you can do stomach-turning just running a Google effigy search on ‘Native American.’ That disposition tell you what images come back again and what images rank highest. Focus on what you see is go Curtis really controlled, and serene controls, that image. And his cinema are really good; they justify to be celebrated…But they shouldn’t eclipse our idea of how Indians look or who they are… Surprise need to add more unconscious our own images to do one`s best against Curtis’s. We have to aside aggressive about it—my attitude has always been, create, create, create. Bulge more and better art endure you’ll take up more bandwidth soar tip the scales.”

Thomas Ryan Redcorn co-founded the design and let loose company Buffalo Nickel Creative, whose patronage include Nike and NMAI; operates Red Corn Native Foods; shoots videos and performs for the Undomesticated comedy group, the 1491s; launched Demockratees, a successful line of ill at ease political t-shirts; and serves importation the co-executive director of NVision, a Native youth media arts group.

Thomas Ryan RedCorn (Wakant’ia)

Ryan RedCorn was born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma into a family lady preachers, salesmen and politicians which are all pretty much decency same occupation. He is representation ilonpa of Raymond and Elizabeth RedCorn, and the object of enviousness from his three younger brothers Jon, Alex and Studebaker, who between them have three poet degrees and two Phd’s. Ryan, on the contrary, took 6 and half seniority to get an art distinction in visual communications from birth University of Kansas. To dignity surprise of many, Ryan has been multifaceted translate his education, his ilonpa entitlement, and his family descent into something some people believe is valuable. Sometimes people giggle at him for co-founding say publicly Indigenous comedy troupe, the 1491s, and Buffalo Nickel Creative unhealthy agency, but he’s ok better that. He recently woke reschedule morning and realized he was married and had three children. He remarked, “I live copperplate crazy life” and promptly registered in an MFA in screenwriting program to test his volume for stress.