Our Exiled NDNZ Reading List & Archive: Tracing a Modern Indigenous Legacy If you’ve ever tried explaining to someone that you’re building a digital library while nursing an oat flat white in a packed London café, you’ll know it’s a strange and beautiful contradiction. Our team has spent countless afternoons doing exactly that, huddled over […]

How Visual Art Fuels Language Revitalisation for Modern-Day Native Americans Standing before a massive canvas, you are confronted not by a quiet landscape, but by a riot of neon pink and electric blue. Layered over a graffiti-style background, bold, geometric characters spell out ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ—”I speak Cherokee.” The characters aren’t merely translated text; they are […]

Museums and Repatriation: The Current Debates Defining Modern-Day Native American Legacy We stood in the North American gallery of the British Museum last autumn, a group of Exiled NDNZ artists and researchers huddled near a display of ceremonial regalia from the Great Plains. The lighting was immaculate, the climate control perfectly calibrated, yet the air […]

Curating with Community Consultation: Our Approach at Exiled NDNZ Last autumn, our team sat in a cramped South London flat, facing a curatorial dilemma that no postgraduate training had prepared us for. We had two conflicting accounts of a ceremonial object’s origin: a neatly catalogued museum record from the 1920s, and the quiet, unwavering testimony […]

Essential Contemporary Indigenous Artists Redefining Modern Culture I remember standing in a cramped studio in Glasgow’s East End, watching an artist layer neon spray paint over a hand-tanned deer hide. The collision of aerosol and rawhide wasn’t just texture—it was a time machine. In that moment, our team understood that the legacy of Indigenous nations […]