Susan Bernardin is chair of Women’s & Gender Studies and professor of English at SUNY Oneonta. Her recent work on contemporary Indigenous mixed-media and comic/graphic arts can be seen in SAIL (Studies in American Indian Literatures) and the Routledge Companion to Native American Literature.
Arigon Starr (Kickapoo), Running Trio, digital illustration, 11 × 17 in / Courtesy of the artist (www.arigonstarr.com)
A central yet surprisingly undernoted facet of Native arts production i…