By Their Work

Joanna Hearne is Jeanne Hoffman Smith Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is author of Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western and Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising and coeditor of ReFocus: The Films of Wallace Fox.   Karrmen Crey (Sto:lo and a member of the Cheam Band) is associate professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and author of Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada (Minnesota, 2024).

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. By Their Work, They Are Vital to the People Karrmen Crey and Joanna Hearne Part I. Histories 1. CyberPowWow and the First Wave of Indigenous Media Arts: A Roundtable Skawennati, Archer Pechawis, Ryan Rice, Jason Edward Lewis, and Mikhel Proulx 2. Twenty-Five Years after Nation to Nation: Digital Space as Place Jolene Rickard 3. Loretta Sarah Todd’s Screen Sovereignty Faye Ginsburg Part II. Animation and Gaming 4. “Women Had to Be Strong”: An Interview with Carol Geddes Jacqueline Land 5. Curation and Collaboration: An Interview with Heid E. Erdrich and Elizabeth Day Joanna Hearne 6. Modeling Resistance: Indigenous Computational Bodies and Settler Colonial Violence Joshua D. Miner 7. Gender and Indigenous Gaming: A Roundtable Meagan Byrne, Marisa Erven, Wendi Sierra, Miranda Due, David Gaertner, Karrmen Crey, and Joanna Hearne Part III. Short Forms 8. Stitching Kinship through Media: Indigenous Women’s Experimental Short Films in Canada Kristin L. Dowell 9. “It’s Not the What, It’s the How”: An Interview with Lisa Jackson Karrmen Crey 10. Inuit Remix: Body and Sonic Sovereignty in Inuit Women’s Digital Music Videos Channette Romero 11. Indigenous Ecofeminisms as (Re)Mapping Projects: An Interview with Filmmaker Nanobah Becker Salma Monani Part IV. Social Media and Digital Platforms 12. #FinePeopleFromIndigenousLands: Selfie Presencing and Radically Relational Aesthetics in Native Twitter’s Virtual Reservation Jacqueline Land 13. Gender and Indigenous Social Media: A Roundtable Patuk N. Glenn, Tawny Trottier Cale, Crystal Harrison Collin, Jacqueline Land, Joanna Hearne, and Karrmen Crey 14. “I Was Jumped”: “Queer” and Trans Indigenous Feminist Micro-Influence on TikTok Jas M. Morgan Part V. Remix: Archives and Experiments in Digital Photography 15. Past Projections: Resilience, Resurgence, and Spectral Presence in Meryl McMaster’s AncestralReilley Bishop-Stall 16. Native Feminist Remix: 16 mm Film, NDN Telephone Etiquette, and Basic-Ass Settler Colonialism Marcella Ernest 17. Woman in Black: Mourning Wounded Knee Dana Claxton Coda: Shared Futures Joanna Hearne and Karrmen Crey Contributors Index