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Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts,

University of New Mexico Press (2020) The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), Santa Fe, New Mexico
Cover Art: Bill Soza War Soldier, Self Portrait, Painting, Oil on Canvas, 1968, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MS - 22).
University of New Mexico Press
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Senior Editor Nancy Marie Mithlo, Ph.D.

Contributing authors: Robert Martin, Ph.D. President, Institute of American Indian Arts; Tatiana Lomahaftewa Singer, B.A. Curator of Collections IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; Ryan Flahive, M.A. IAIA Archivist; Chapter contributors: David Wade Chambers, Ph.D. IAIA Emeritus Native Eyes Director; Charles Dailey, B.A. IAIA Emeritus Museum Studies faculty; Lara Evans, Ph.D. Professor Art History, Institute of American Indian Arts; Stephen Fadden, M.A. Programming Director, Poeh Cultural Center; Nancy Marie Mithlo, Ph.D. Professor of Gender Studies, UCLA; Suzanne Newman Fricke, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Art History, IAIA; Patsy Phillips, M.A. Director, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, IAIA; John Paul Rangel, Ph.D. Creative Director, Asphalt Apache Design; Jessie Ryker-Crawford, Ph.D. IAIA Professor of Museum Studies, IAIA; Dave Warren, Ph.D. IAIA Emeritus Cultural Research and Resource Development Center Director; Poems: Alex Jacobs, B.F.A.; Elizabeth Woody, M.P.A.

Reviews

McEnaney, Lillia. Review of Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo. Southwest Contemporary. January 27, 2021. southwestcontemporary.com/book-review-making-history-iaia/
 
Quimby, Sara. Review of Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo. Art Libraries Society of North America, September 2021. dx.doi.org/10.17613/5eyc-ab14
 
Ernest, Marcella. Review of Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo. Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 53, Issue 1, Spring 2022, Pages 84–86. doi.org/10.1093/whq/whab123
 
Lambrecht, Winifred. Review of Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo. Journal of Folklore Research, April 8, 2022. wayback.archive-it.org/219/20220512011142/https://jfr.sitehost.iu.edu/review.php?id=2586
 
Titterington, David. Review of Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo. Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 43, Number 1, Winter 2023, pp. 107-108. doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2023.a897854