Mattie Looks for Steve Biko

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie is a Native American artist and theorist working across photography, video, and installation since the 1980s. Her practice engages Indigenous sovereignty, colonial representation, and the politics of image-making, often interrogating how Native bodies and identities have been constructed and archived by dominant institutions. Working from a decolonial perspective, Tsinhnahjinnie employs appropriation and montage to dismantle ethnographic conventions and assert Indigenous authorship. Her work addresses the legacies of postwar displacement and the visual legacies of anthropological documentation.