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The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts began on a basketball court in the old Santa Fe Indian School.
From those humble beginnings, it grew from a depository of student art into a collection of 9,000 objects encompassing some of the finest Indigenous art in the country.
“Making History” (2020 University of New Mexico Press) guides readers through that genesis into more contemporary interpretations of Native life.
In many ways inseparable from the museum,