Critique of Anishinaabe exhibition's static portrayal of place in Native American art

A 2015 article by Christopher T. Green critiques the exhibition 'Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes' for presenting the Anishinaabe connection to the Great Lakes region as timeless and unchanging. Green argues this curatorial approach idealizes and ahistoricizes the Native American relationship to place, ignoring the dynamic and adaptive nature highlighted by the art itself. The exhibition's portrayal is seen as inaccurate to the tumultuous legacy of colonialism. Other recent indigenous art exhibitions demonstrate that curators can showcase how relationships to place evolve while being maintained. The article was published on June 5, 2015, on ARTMargins Online, with content available through MIT Press on a subscription-only basis. It problematizes the use of place as a curatorial strategy in Native American art, emphasizing that the art reveals a changing dynamic despite the exhibition's framing.