She writes:

Native women have always created objects (especially beadwork, ribbonwork, weaving, pottery, and basketry) that carried messages about their communities and cultures. What we would call the fiber and ceramic arts continue to be media in which many contemporary traditional Native women artists work. This work, both contemporary and historical, forms the basis of most Native art collections in museums and the vast market for Indian art. Artists working in less traditional media, including photography, who also use their art to carry messages about their communities, have received less recognition and far less patronage by art consumers. Since the 1970s, Native women have produced an astounding body of images in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. They have confidently moved into the role of photographer, using film as a medium to carry messages to their own cultures.

Jensen goes on to address how Native women "combine a search for personal and public identity" through their artwork:

Their work has formed a critique, a different story, that explicitly and implicitly critiques the "vanishing race" genre of romantic photography so popular at the turn of the century and since the 1970s revival of Edward Curtis and other photographers of American Indians. These photographers portray their cultures not as vanishing, but as part of a lively, assertive group of people confident about the importance of their cultures in the past, their importance to the present, and their influence on the future.

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On Frantz Fanon:

Concerning Violence
The Ambivalence of Fidelity: Frantz Fanon and the Cultural Unconscious
Wikipedia entry

Originally created 21 May 2009 at 7:16AM

after talking to you
yesterday
& confessing
things
I have only
confessed
to myself...
to my creator

I realized
why I fight
so hard
for every girl

I want
every girl
to have nothing
to worry about
except her dolls
& her tea parties
& maybe
just get a little upset
for a short period
of time
because
there are no swings
left at the playground

then she smiles
when she sees
there is
plenty of room
on the slide
or
the jungle gym
or
the sandbox

i fight so hard
for little girls
because
i never
want them
to feel
the pain of

a grown woman

who doesn't know
how
to trust
to love

a grown woman
who was never protected
by those she loved

from harm
& hurt
& pain
& boys
& men

so i protect them
& love them
& give them
someone to trust

so they can grow up
beautiful
& happy
with everyday smiles
that will make
the world
strong
& beautiful
& peaceful

I want them all
to bloom
to bloom
to bloom

beautiful