"Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism addresses the most pressing concerns in the field of contemporary Native arts practice including the nature of place, identity debates, pedagogy, vocabulary, professional standing and our global presence. Through the support of the Ford Foundation Advancing the Dialogue on Native Arts in Society initiative, the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts presents Manifestations as a representation of an authoritative source for advancing discourse on Native arts practices and concerns. A curriculum guide to accompany Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism is available at www.mocna.org "--Press release online dated Dec. 8, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Patsy Phillips -- Preface: some practical reflections / Will Wilson -- The first wave-- this time around / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Invisible forces of change: United States Indian policy and American Indian art / Stephen Fadden, Stephen Wall -- Encoded knowledge: memory and objects in contemporary Native American art / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Owning the image: indigenous arts since 1990 / Mario A. Caro -- Artists : Norman Akers, Marcus Amerman, Arthur Amiotte, Rick Bartow, Susie Bevins-Ericsen, David Bradley, Lorenzo Clayton, Karita Coffey, Jim Denomie, Joe Feddersen, John Feodorov, Yatika Starr Fields, Nicholas Galanin, Richard Glazer-Danay, Bob Haozous, Edgar Heap of Birds, John Hoover, Frank Buffalo Hyde, G. Peter Jemison, Peter B. Jones, Tom Jones, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Jean LaMarr, Frank LaPena, Kapulani Landgraf, James Lavadour, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Erica Lord, Judith Lowry, Jason Lujan, James Luna, Mario Martinez, Alan Michelson, Douglas Miles, Kay Miller, Shelley Niro, Lillian Pitt, Jolene Rickard, Diego Romero, Mateo Romero, Tanis Maria S'eiltin, Susie Silook, Rose B. Simpson, Preston Singletary, Duane Slick, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Bentley Spang, C. Maxx Stevens, Roxanne Swentzell, Charlene Teters, Gail Tremblay, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Kade L. Twist, Kay WalkingStick, Denise Wallace, Marie Watt, Richard Ray Whitman, Will Wilson, Steven Yazzie.