Indigenous futurism

Names

• Indigenous Futurism
• Indigenous Futurisms
• Can include many subgenres of Indigenous and Cultural Futurisms such as Adivasi Futurism, Tropical Futurism, First Nations Futurism, Inuit Futurism, Pasifikafuturism, Latinxfuturism, Amazofuturism and more
• Can overlap with Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism
• Can include and overlap with movements like Solarpunk and more

Artists and Creators

• Marcus Amerman
• Bryon Archuleta
• Sonny Assu
• Gina Cole (NZ, Tāmaki Makaurau)
• Solomon Enos (US, Hawai'i)
• Skawennati Tricia Fragnito aka Skawennati (CAN)
• Nicholas Galanin
• Teri Greeves
• Luzene Hill
• Frank Buffalo Hyde
• Indigenous Futures Research Center (CAN)
• Lisa Jackson
• Steven Paul Judd
• Matthew Kaopio
• Kite
• Elizabeth LaPensée
• Jason Edward Lewis (CAN)
• Daniel McCoy Jr.
• James McCloud
• Ehren Kee Natay
• Shelley Niro
• Virgil Ortiz
• Lido Pimienta (CAN)
• Devin Ronneberg
• Cara Romero (US, Chemehuevi)
• Sarah Sense
• Vandana Shiva (IN)
• Hoka Skenandore
• Ryan Singer
• Subash Thebe Limbu (NP, Yakthung Nation)
• Sony Thokchom
• Robert Dale Tsosie
• Celina Tupou-Fulivai aka Heliaki
• Jeffrey Veregge
• Rory Wakemup
• Will Wilson
• Debra Yepa-Pappan
• Santiago X

Curators, Theorists & Critics

• Grace L. Dillon

Discussions

• "Indigenous Futurism in Hawai’i and Beyond: An Artist Talk with Solomon Enos", Concordia University, June 26, 2024.
• "The Hawaiian Futurisms Symposium", Ho‘oulu Lāhui: 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, Honolulu, June 15 2024.
• "The Road Beyond Ningwasum: A Roundtable on Himalayan Indigenous Futures", Moderated by Pasang Yangjee Sherpa as part of UH Manoa Center for South Asian Studies Spring Symposium 2024: "South Asian Futures", University of Hawai'i at Manoa, April 10-12, 2024. Speakers: Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Charisma Lepcha, Elspeth Iralu, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, Mabel Gergan, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Sara Smith.
• "Formations – Adivasi and Dalit Futurism: Artists Subash Thebe Limbu and Osheen Siva in Conversation", CADALFEST (Celebrating Adivasi and Dalit Arts and Literature Festival), Bonington Gallery, Online, India and Nottingham, October 20 2022. Speakers: Osheen Siva, Subash Thebe Limbu, K.A. Geetha, Priteegandha Naik.
• “Native Science: The Indigenous Mind Rising”, University of New England Center for Global Humanities, University of New England Center, ME. Keynote Address. February 24 2020. Speaker: Greg Cajete.

Exhibitions & Catalogues

2024

• Hawaiian Futurisms, Exhibition and Symposium, Ho‘oulu Lāhui: 13th Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture, Honolulu, June 3-28 2024.

2021

• Indigenous Futurisms: Transcending Past/Present/Future, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, February 13 2020–January 3, 2021. Works by Marcus Amerman, Bryon Archuleta, Sonny Assu, Nicholas Galanin, Teri Greeves, Luzene Hill, Frank Buffalo Hyde, Steven Paul Judd, Kite, Elizabeth LaPensée, Daniel McCoy Jr., James McCloud, Ehren Kee Natay, Shelley Niro, Virgil Ortiz, Devin Ronneberg, Sarah Sense, Ryan Singer, Skawennati, Hoka Skenandore, Neal Ambrose Smith, Robert Dale Tsosie, Jeffrey Veregge, Rory Wakemup, Will Wilson, Santiago X, Debra Yepa-Pappan.

Publications

Books

• Grace L. Dillon (Ed.), Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, University of Arizona Press, 2012.
• Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

• Anisha Baid, Subash Thebe Limbu, "Towards an Adivasi Futurism: An Interview with Subash Thebe Limbu", ASAP Art, March 16 2021.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

• Grace L. Dillon, “Imagining Indigenous Futurisms”, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, University of Arizona Press, 2012, pp 1-12.

• Henrietta Lidchi, Suzanne Newman Fricke, "Future History:Indigenous Futurisms in North American Visual Arts", World Art, 2019, pp. 99-102.

• Margaret Carrigan, Santiago X, "One mound at a time: Native American artist Santiago X on rebuilding Indigenous cities", The Art Newspaper, September 20 2019.

• Jameson Page, Santiago X, "Indigenous Futurism Is Now: In Conversation with Santiago X", Public Parking, March 20 2020.

• Rea McNamara, "Skawennati Makes Space for Indigenous Representation and Sovereignty in the Virtual World of Second Life", Art News, July 1 2020.

• Monica Whitepigeon, "Indigenous Futurists Strive to Reach Chicago’s Art Community", Native News Online, July 27 2020.

• Subash Thebe Limbu, "Adivasi Futurism", August 09 2020.

• "What Is Indigenous Futurism?", Center for Architecture Lab: Indigenous Scholars of Architecture, Planning and Design (ISAPD), May 2021.

• Grace Dillon, Pedro Neves Marques, "Taking the Science Fiction Out of Science Fiction: A Conversation About Indigenous Futurisms", eflux journal issue #120, September 2021.

• Abaki Beck, "Indigenous Futurism", We R Native.

• Chelsea Vowel, "Writing Toward a Definition of Indigenous Futurism", Literary Hub, June 10 2022.

• Saddaf Padder, "In Search of Inclusive South Asian Futurisms", Hyperallergic, March 22 2023.

• Vaaswat Saarkar, "Inside Artist Subash Thebe Limbu's Intersectional World Of Adivasi Futurism", Homegrown.co.in, May 05 2023.

• Hina Siddiqui, "Cultural Futurism: Possibilities, Probabilities and Potential", Art Now Thus, May 29 2023.

• Juleana Enright, "Magical Realism & Indigenous Futures:An Interview with Cara Romero", Bockley Gallery, September 02 2023.

• Alice Ming Wai Jim, "Ethnic futurisms and contemporary art", Art and knowledge after 1900, December 12 2023.

Conferences

• Danya Epstein, “Future Progressive: Dennis Numkena’s Indigenous Futurisms”, paper presented at the 109th CAA Annual Conference, February 11 2021.

See Also

Global South Futurisms, South Asian Futurisms, Dalit Futurism, Dalit Feminism, Adivasi Futurism, Chicanafuturism, Latino Futurism, Latinx Futurism, Aboriginal Futurism, Subaltern Futurism, Amazofuturism, New World, Post Western, Tropical Futurism, Afrofuturism, Decolonization, Queer Studies, Queer Futurism, Protopia Futures, Ethno Futurism