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Six Sculptures Pay Homage to Forgotten Cowboys of Color
Christopher Myers' "The Art of Taming Horses" sculptures subvert the accepted narrative of monuments to tell the story of two fictional ranchers of color.

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Hollywood Sign-Like Artwork Asks Difficult Land Rights Questions
With its enormous letters in the Hollywood sign typeface, "INDIAN LAND" references the roots of this country's colonial genocide and racism and reveal the rawness of a wound that has yet to heal.

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What a 122-Square-Foot Cabin Says About Life in the Modern World
Kim Stringfellow's Desert X installation is an endemic artwork disguised as a micro home that speaks to a slower, more sustainable lifestyle in the modern world.

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A Maze in the Desert Depicts the Risky, Uncertain Reality for Immigrants
Eduardo Sarabia's "The Passenger" speaks to the journey of the modern immigrant to the U.S. as one of fragility and resilience.

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Artist's Wall in the Desert is All About Connections
Saudi Arabian artist Zarah Alghamdi’s Desert X 2021 installation begs the question of what lies beyond walls, both material and immaterial.

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Palm Springs Billboards Prompt Heavy Road Trip Conversations
Created by artist Xaviera Simmons, the billboards along Gene Autry Trail in Palm Spring focus on messages that urgently need to make its way into the nation’s political, social and ecological dialog.

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Decolonizing the Way We Eat: How Did We Get Here and How Do We Re-Indigenize Our Relationship to Food?
Being in living relationship with our food is a practiced awareness and a crucial cultural foundation of indigeneity, the loss of which has been a disastrous legacy of colonialism.

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Tending the Peruvian Amazon: Planting Seeds of Reciprocity Between Human and Earth
Based in the Peruvian Amazon, Chaikuni Institute blends an Indigenous agricultural practice known as chacras integrales with agroforestry, a permaculture method from Brazil.

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The Indigenous Science of Permaculture
Permaculture is a recent offspring of indigenous science. A dismissal of this as such is a telltale sign and symptom of the colonizer and its unnatural selections.

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The Syuxtun Collective: Restoring Reciprocity with Health & Nature
We have forgotten how to be medicine to the land, and to ourselves. The members of Syuxtun Collective are revisiting lost indigenous wisdom of learning and listening, of harvesting and preparing plant medicine in participation with nature.