A study of Native American art and artists that represent a crucial and formative, though rarely recognized, aspect of American modernism.

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxix
1. Art and Modern Indian Policy 1
2. The Culture Brokers: The Pueblo Paintings of José Lente and Jimmy Brynes 30
3. "Our Inter-American Consciousness": Barnett Newman and the Primitive Universal 59
4. The Importance of Place: The Ojibwe Modernism of Patrick DesJarlait and George Morrison 89
5. Becoming Indian: The Self-Invention of Yeffe Kimball 117
6. "A fine painting . . . but not Indian": Oscar Howe, Dick West, and Native American Modernism 142
Postscript: Making Modern Native American Artists 171
Notes 183
Bibliography 217
Index 227