25 renowned Indigenous artists from across the U.S. and Mexico tell stories of identity and share what it means to take control and preserve their culture. Through the themes of borders, family lineage, shared histories, colonization, and assimilation, the artists respond to the complexity of blood quantum in their artwork and demonstrate how they are reclaiming their Indigenous cultures.

Blood quantum is a method of measurement used to determine Indigenous identity by percentage or affiliation to a tribe implemented by the U.S. federal government in the 1900s.

Guess curated by Dakota Mace

THE ARTISTS: Cinthya Santo-Briones (Nahua), Gabriela Morac (Zapoteca), Henry Payer (Ho-Chunk), Ian Kuali’i (Hawaiian/Apache), Isa Gagarin (Chamorro/Filipino), Israel Campos (Chicano), Jamie Chavez (Tarahumara/Tohono Oohodam), Jamison Chas Banks (Seneca-Cayuga/Cherokee/Ioway), John Hitchcock (Comanche/Kiowa), Jordan Craig (Northern Cheyenne), Keith Secola Jr. (Northern Ute/Anishinaabe), Luvia Lazo (Zapoteca) Header Image, Luzene Hill (Eastern Band Cherokee), Lynne Allen (Hunkpapa tribe of the Teton Lakota), Maggie Thompson (Fond du Lac Ojibwe), Mikayla Patton (Oglala Lakota/Isleta Pueblo), Monty Little (Diné), Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné), Philip Vigil (Jemez Pueblo/Jicarilla Apache), Rapheal Begay (Diné), Sarah Sense (Choctaw/Chitimacha), Skye Tafoya (Eastern Band Cherokee/Santa Clara Pueblo), Tito Mendoza Ruiz (Zapoteca), Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk), Valaria Tatera (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)