Nicholas Galanin’s New American National Anthem

Nicholas Galanin’s New American National Anthem

The demands of artist’s work are simple: everything that has been taken from Indigenous peoples must be returned The Alaska-based Lingít and Unangaxˆ interdisciplinary artist Yeíl Ya-Tseen Nicholas Galanin is contributing to an expanding global dialogue critiquing museums for not repatriating Indigenous remains and artefacts, as well as the United States’s own systemic erasure of Indigenous histories. Galanin’s ‘life work’, as he calls it, is eq…