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STILL SOVEREIGN: LAND, LAW, MEMORY

Still Sovereign: Land, Law, Memory examines Tribal sovereignty as a living and ongoing reality. Guided by ancestral memory and Indigenous governance systems in existence long before the United States, the exhibition explores sovereignty through relationships to land, law, and community.

Through contemporary and traditional Indigenous art, historical materials, and community knowledge, the exhibition demonstrates that sovereignty is not an abstract but an innate concept practiced every day through stewardship, governance, storytelling, and responsibility to future generations.

Still Sovereign is the first exhibition in Sovereignty and Democracy in Indian Country, a three-part exhibition series supported by a Mellon Foundation grant through the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa

Explore the Exhibition

LAND

LAW

MEMORY

ARTISTS

Land is jurisdiction.
Land is relationship.
Land is responsibility.

Tribal sovereignty is political and legal, not symbolic.

Language, stories, education, and knowledge carry sovereignty forward.

Meet the Indigenous artists whose work shapes the exhibition.

Continue the Conversation

VOICES

CATALOGUE
OF WORKS

GALLERY

Hear the artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, and knowledge keepers represented throughout the exhibition.

View the catalogue of works
in the exhibition

View images from 
opening night

RESOURCES

Explore sources, histories, archives, organizations, and materials that informed
Still Sovereign.

September 4th-November 21st
Oklahoma Center for Humanities
101 E. Archer St., Tulsa, OK

Opening Reception
September 4th | 5-9 pm

Artist Talk
November 6th | 5 pm

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Special thanks to the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Dr. Sean Latham, and Dr. Jessica Mehta for their support of this exhibition and the Mellon Curatorship in Sovereignty and Democracy in Indian Country. Additional thanks to the Muscogee Nation Department of Culture and Humanities; Midge Dellinger; John Beaver; America Meredith and First American Art Magazine; Anita Fields; Sterlin Harjo; Rebecca Nagle; Kyle Bell; Kalyn Fay; Julie Pearson Little Thunder; Brittany Postoak for designing the interactive audiovisual experience; the Yuchi Language Project; Claudio Saunt; the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative; and the many artists, cultural practitioners, knowledge keepers, elders, friends, and family members whose generosity, guidance, and support helped shape this exhibition.

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