East Lansing, MI, United States
Dylan A. T. Miner is an American artist, activist, art historian, and educator who focuses on indigenous and anti-colonial issues. Miner is from Michigan and is of Métis descent, also referred as Wiisaakodewini.
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Over the past two years, I’ve worked on a series of projects with Canadian curator Jon Lockyer. Each of these projects commenced from an initial event in 1906 when my…
For many Indigenous people, late-winter or early-spring (depending on your perspective) is the time to be in the Iskigamizigan or Sugar Bush. It is a period when everything and everyone…
In the Great Lakes, there is growing concern over the safety of Enbridge Line 5, an aging pipeline that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Similar to the images that Dylan Miner created in…
Over the last two days, Justseeds’ member Dylan Miner put together some graphics in solidarity with Standing Rock resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. You can read about Native support here at Indian…
In her recent book Sociología de la imagen, Aymara sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui writes that ‘la descolonización solo puede realizarse en la práctica.’ Rivera Cusicanqui maintains that the only way…
On Saturday night, I took the redeye flight from Detroit to Santiago. I am hanging out in Chile for a week, where I am co-convening a Working Group at the Tenth…
Throughout my life, I have known plenty of folks who have used roadkill for a variety of purposes. In addition to dumpster diving baked goods or produce, many of the freegan folks I knew in my…
On Saturday morning, I woke to greet the sun. Before going to bed the night before, I set the alarm on my phone, but my body arose before the phone’s…
A few years ago, I desired to learn to speak to plants and learn their language. Although I had been raised primarily in the woods in Michigan’s Thumb, I didn’t…
During May and early June, I made two trips to traditional Cree and Métis territory, a place known as Oskana Kâ-asastêki. Today, settlers call it Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I had last been…
For my first entry in Aniibiishaaboo miinawaa Makade-mshkikiwaaboo – Tea and Coffee, I want to reflect on my exhibition that is currently on view at Artspace in Nogojiwanong (place at the…
Over the last few years, life seems to have gotten the best of me. While I have been quite busy on artistic and community-based projects, as well as teaching and…
As many followers of Justseeds know, today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In the United States, today is a federally-recognized, national holiday known as Columbus Day. In much of Latin America,…
You can download the PDF here. I thought friends of Justseeds might be interested in the catalogue for ‘Lake-Effect: Rurality and Ecology in the Great Lakes.’ I have uploaded the…
Lake-Effect, an exhibition at (scene) metrospace, is the first public event in an ongoing series of projects that interrogates the history, culture, and life of the Great Lakes. Lake-Effect is…
For more than a year, our friends and co-conspirators known as the Compass Group (the folks behind the autonomous structure of the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor) have been hard at…
Wendy Redstar, a contemporary Crow artist who teaches at Portland State University, runs a blog on Contemporary Indigenous art. Along with her students at PSU, she conducts challenging and provocative…
In Manitoba, the Canadian province north of Minnesota and North Dakota, today is officially Louis Riel Day. For many, Riel is a controversial historical figure. Seen by many as the…
In late-December and early-January, I will be traveling to Australia as part of an Indigenous delegation attempting to establish an exchange program between Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes (on…
Today was our first real day working on the installation for the Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana. Kevin and Mazatl have been in Slovenia for a couple days, while…