But all of us fall into the trap of colonizing categories. The structure of equity for women amongst the Haudenosaunee is both spiritual and political. It is a demonstration of vital, purposeful peoples up against the consuming West. The potency of the work in Watchful Eyes is at the cutting edge because it is actively defying hegemonic consent. The traditions are carried by the people.
Survival is a finely-negotiated space that is financially secure as well as spiritually renewable.
Art, in the late twentieth century western sense of the word, has been a unique product of both aspects of our survival. Frozen by the bright light, a hunter has an unfair advantage to kill. A hunting technique in the late twentieth century serves as a ballast for the latest trap, inclusion in a theoretically hostile space. Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times , edited by William N. Fenton and Elizabeth Moore, vols. The Champlain Society, 1977.