User:Woomm002/Futurism/Bibliography

Indigenous Futurism is a subset of futurism and deals with future of indigenous people and indigenous values. One main value of indigenous people is storytelling. Storytelling helps to keep the past present and is a form of learning. In the sense of futurism, storytelling will help people to learn about where they came from and how they grew up. It will help the listeners to make the best future for themselves as possible. Another way to learn about the past to better the future is through art. Indigenous art can be used for this purpose to help spread the word about the values they have in respect to land.

Kristina Baudemann focuses on storytelling and art and the integration of science fiction into indigenous art in Indigenous Futurisms in North American Indigenous Art. She says that indigenous people are resilient and sustainable and their art incorporates those characteristics. One specific indigenous artist, Ryan Singer, of the Navajo nation, uses many different mediums of art to create his pieces. He has two pieces of Princess Leia, from the Star Wars series that portrays the princess as Hopi and shares the idea of decolonization. In his first painting, Hopi Princess Leia (2009), he shows the Hopi Princess Leia holding a gun pointing straight at the audience while also staring directly at the audience as well. In his second Hope Princess Leia, named Hopi Princess Leia II (2010), Leia is seen holding a bigger gun and still looking directly at the audience. Baudemann analyzes this depiction and says it creates awareness of the colonial gaze, which is harmful to indigeneity. In these paintings Princess Leia is seen clad in a Hopi blanket, wearing the hairstyle typical to unmarried Hopi girls. She is in front of her pueblo homes protecting them with her gun. Baudemann emphasizes the idea that Hopi homes should be seen as homes and not monuments that can be looked at by outsiders and they should not be appropriated. Princess Leia, in the Star Wars movies, loves her home and tries her hardest to protect it which is why Singer chose princess Leia to be depicted in these paintings.