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Sarah Biscarra-Dilley

Overview:


 * Sarah Biscarra-Dilley is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, writer, and educator. Her works focus on the resiliency, self-determination, and sovereignty of Indigenous populations through the collaboration and shared experiences between communities, specifically within nitspu tiłhin ktitʸu, the State of California.

Bibliography:


 * Sarah Biscarra-Dilley was born in 1986 of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribe which resides in the homeland of the Chochenyo Ohlone people in unceded Nisenan land also known as the Oakland, California area.


 * Biscarra-Dilley currently resides in San Francisco.


 * Biscarra-Dilley is working on a book that is focused on her Chumash heritage, in which “she hopes to bring all the parts, even the ugly ones, into the light to set the stage for healing.

Personal Life:



Education:


 * Biscarra-Dilley received her undergraduate at the Institute of American Indian Arts (2010-2011), a BA in Urban Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute (2015), an MA in Native American Studies from UC Davis (2018), and is currently working on her Ph.D. (2016-present). in Native American Studies also at UC Davis.

Works:


 * Biscarra-Dilley has been awarded numerous grants and funds for her work.


 * Completed various artist-in-residence programs such as the Art Writer's Tiny Residency in Portland, OR, The Indigenous Art Journal at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity,  Carrizozo Colony, Carrizozo, NM, as well as multiple others

Awards:


 * 2018: Nominated for her solo arts practice in the SECA Art Award + exhibition in SFMOMA, SF, CA.

Reception:

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Billy-Ray Belcourt

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Biography - Belcourt is a Youth Facilitator with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN).

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Warren Cariou (Métis)


 * Biography:
 * Warren Cariou is from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. His parents are of Metis and European Heritage. He now lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is a professor of Aboriginal Literature at the University of Manitoba. Despite no longer living in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan many aspects of his career has focused on questions surrounding people from his home town. Cariou’s research and artistic endeavours examine “themes of community, environment, orality and belonging in the Canadian West” (About. Warren, Cariou). Cariou is focused on analyzing and discussing the relationship between Indigenous and settler peoples (About. Warren, Cariou).
 * Career:
 * Editor, artist (photography and film), mixed-genre writer, Professor of Aboriginal

Literature at the University of Manitoba, director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (“WARREN CARIOU”)


 * Activist for the Protection of Indigenous Oralities (Cariou, Warren, 2016)
 * Works:
 * Books:
 * Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs
 * Lake of the Prairies: A Story of Belonging. This book won the Drainie-Taylor Prize (About. Warren Cariou).
 * Films:
 * Documentary: Overburden by Neil McArthur and Warren Cariou. Released 2009-01-03 (Winnipeg Film Group).
 * Documentary: Land of Oil and Water by Neil McArthur and Warren Cariou. 2009-01-01 (Winnipeg Film Group).
 * Photography:
 * In 2013 Cariou wrote and created documentaries Overburdened and Land of Oil and Water with Neil McArthur about the highly destructive production of tar sands impacting the Indigenous communities of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Cariou then decided to begin using the toxic material to create photographs he has named petrography (Petrography. Warren, Cariou).
 * He began experimenting with the new medium with assistance from Dr. Dusan Stulik, a Senior Research Scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute (Petrography. Warren, Cariou).
 * Medium - Petrography “Petrography is literally petroleum-photography:  the creation of images through the interaction of sunlight and the heavy petroleum product known as bitumen, which is the main source of the vast supplies of oil in Canada’s Athabasca tar sands region” (Petrography. Warren, Cariou).

Indigenous Authors Absent From Wikipedia:


 * 1) Sarah Biscarra-Dilley (Barbareno Chumash/Yaqui)
 * 2) Esther Berlin (Diné)
 * 3) Vickie Sears (Cherokee)
 * 4) Chip Livingston (Creek)
 * 5) Joseph Johnson (Mohegan)
 * 6) Brandy Nālani McDougall (Kānaka Maoli)
 * 7) Sara Sue Hoklotubbe (Cherokee Nation)
 * 8) Geary Hobson (Cherokee-Quapaw/Chickasaw)
 * 9) Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuvialuit)
 * 10) Louis Bird (Omushkego Cree)