Of Sky and Earth: Art of the Early Southeastern Indians. Roy S. DickensJr. , editor, with contributions by Charles Hudson and Roy C. CravenJr. , Designed by Jim Zambounis, with production coordination by Jane Ferriss. Lee Printing Company, Dalton, Georgia, 1982. 96 pp., illus. $9.95 (paper).

By engaging interventionist art by women of color at two different scales—ephemeral body/earth art and monumental public art—this chapter supplements post-humanist theories of “deep time”—in particular, the temporality of the Anthropocene—with a concept of “dark time.” The intensive, alchemical, and obscure temporality of “dark time” is crucial to understanding black and brown feminist performance interventions against the violence of expropriative capitalism in the Americas. The chapter reads the art work of Kara Walker and Regina José Galindo through the poetry of Harryette Mullen and philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

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Contact Era Studies and the Southeastern Indians

Native and Spanish New Worlds ◽

10.2307/j.ctt183p8pq.7 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 63-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robbie Ethridge

Keyword(s):

Southeastern Indians

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“Skilful Jockies” and “Good Sadlers”

Borderland Narratives ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813054957.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Tyler Boulware

Keyword(s):

Eighteenth Century ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Spatial Mobility ◽

Borderlands History ◽

The Future ◽

Economic Exchanges ◽

Territorial Boundaries ◽

Ecological Landscape ◽

Southeastern Indians ◽

Cultural Interactions

This chapter introduces and assesses the roles horses played in the economies and societies of eighteenth-century southeastern Indians. Villagers throughout the region found horses essential in hunting, trade, and war. If the future of borderlands history centers partly on issues of spatial mobility and ambiguities of power, then horses are especially relevant to borderlands scholarship. In the early South, horses facilitated cross-cultural and economic exchanges while undermining the structures of authority for both Indians and whites. A closer look at the interrelationship between Indians, horses, and the environment affords new insights into borderlands history by underscoring how human and animal mobility not only complicated territorial boundaries and cross-cultural interactions but also subtly modified the socioeconomic foundations and ecological landscape of southeastern Indians.

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