This panel will discuss the links between art and activism today for young Native women, with a focus on the importance of storytelling by and from an Indigenous perspective, as a new generation of women uses art in their communities.

A lot hasbeenwrittenandpainted about Indigenous Peoples, but what changes whenyougetthe chance to tell yourlife, yourstory, withyourownwords? How do these Native artistsview American societyandtheirown place within it?

Those questions will be thecore of this panel co-organized by the California Center of the Institut des Amériques, theAmerican Indian Studies Center, theLatin American Institute (UCLA) andtheCollege of Social Sciences of UCLA.