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Accepted Paper:
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Deborah Spears Moorehead is a Native American Wampanoag artist, storyteller, dancer, and author, dedicated to protecting, preserving, and sharing the accurate rich history and culture of Eastern Woodland Native American Tribal Nations.
Paper Abstract:
Deborah Spears Moorehead presents her life's journey of rewriting History and reclaiming the obscurity of her ancestral relatives' past, traditions, stories, music and culture. Her life's work of visual arts and literature, focus on Creation Stories, Oral Traditions, and Native American contemporary lives. Deborah's paintings are of Eastern Woodland Native American historical events and people.
Her literature counteracts some of the Colonial era primary documents, and narratives that are taught as accepted authorized hegemonic versions of the United States History in regards to its formation and treatment of Native American people.. By reveling the Native American perspective, Deborah's art and literature educates on the damaging effects of the colonization techniques used to destroy Native American Tribal Nations.
She celebrates Eastern Woodland Native American Tribal Nation's resilience, culture , traditions and survival through a near genocide with her art and literature. Her book "Finding Balance " counter acts the obscurity and erasure of Eastern Woodland Native AmericanTribal Nation's History. Finding Balance is a linear chronological historical and genealogical account of the Seaconke Wampanoag Tribal Nation.
Indigenous visual arts as a form of research methodology
Session 2