Early Indigenous Literatures

Mouth parted and gesturing out

The children whose faces we can see have mouths slightly ajar. This figure has their chin slightly raised in presumably a call of excitement/joy which we are not fully privy to. Part of the play is the freedom to produce sound, an aspect we have seen is critical to Bonnin's stories as she reproduces the right of Native women and children to express their own and their nation's sovereignties. The gesture of speaking/shouting defies the stillness of a painting much like the palpable movement within Howe's work overall.

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