By Suzy Kopf
Ashley Minner doesn’t want to help you with your land acknowledgement or with figuring out what you should call indigenous peoples. She is tired of being asked to speak for all indigenous peoples everywhere. She’d rather be speaking about the specific story of her family or her own art practice. “It’s hard to be just an artist because you’re never not who you are, but I feel like I get tokenized a lot and receive a lot of attention in November,” she says, because November is Native American Heritage Month. “It’s exhausting, I miss drawing and painting.”