... of the eighteenth century, Africans and their descendants encountered European Freemasonry in Africa, North America, and the Caribbean. The existence of lodges outside North America and prior to the organization of the African Lodge in Boston underscores the likelihood that Marrant encountered and formed ideas...

... Chapter 4 centers on the Crow lodge, a painted tipi by Blackfeet artist Darryl Blackman that was commissioned by the US Information Agency for the US Pavilion at Expo 70 in Japan. Garnering a record-breaking sixty-four million visitors, the first Asian exposition was charged with simulating...

.... Heap of Birds’s art lodges a trenchant critique of settler colonialism and its legacies. This introduction contextualizes his work in relation to a generation of politically engaged artists along with whom he first gained notoriety in the 1980s. Heap of Birds’s practice is also contextualized...