For generations, my family has owned a piece of untold Black history in Boley, Oklahoma. This year, I finally got to see it.
Tag: Native American
Posted inArts & Culture
The Field Museum’s Native North American Hall starts to ask who it represents
A renovation scheduled to be completed in 2021 reflects new-found efforts to engage Native communities.
Posted inNews & Politics
Are the Vinyard Indians the Rachel Dolezal of native tribes?
The Vinyard Indians are attempting to become Illinois’s first state-recognized native tribe. But tribes long recognized by the federal government say the downstate group’s members are just a bunch of white people caught in an act of cultural appropriation.
Posted inMusic
Add blues pianist Barrelhouse Chuck to the list of greats lost in 2016
Barrelhouse Chuck built upon piano traditions established by the likes of Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, and Little Brother Montgomery.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How Chicago activists sought to ‘decolonize’ Thanksgiving at Standing Rock
About a dozen or so people traveled to the still-contested Dakota Access Pipeline to show their solidarity with Native American protesters.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How not to be an offensive jerk this Halloween
Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre.”
Posted inArts & Culture
Appropriate consequences at Victory Gardens
Grandpa’s secret comes out and the family melts down in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play.
Posted inArts & Culture
Where things stand with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Where things stand with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.
Posted inBlogs
Commit to not being so fucking PC
On mascots, microflaps, and “Commit to the Indian.”
Posted inMusic
Ab Baars Quartet
Most jazz musicians are content to express themselves within the confines of their solos, but the great Dutch reedist Ab Baars is just as interested in personalizing tunes by reworking their underlying structures. In 1999 he did it to the oeuvre of clarinetist John Carter (a onetime mentor), and 2001’s Songs was a brilliantly conceived […]
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Ab Baars
Dutch reedist Ab Baars knows how to play the sly games that his country’s senior jazzmen–especially Misha Mengelberg and Han Bennink–have made a stock-in-trade. As a longtime member of Mengelberg’s ICP Orchestra he’s developed an instinctual ability to turn on a dime, and his occasionally comic decisions–like dropping a surprising snort or sourly intoned quote […]