Changing the Way We See Native America

Matika Wilbur

Monday, 13 Nov 2017 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

Matika Wilbur is a photographer and social documentarian from the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes of the Pacific Northwest. She is the creator of Project 562, a multi-year national photo and narrative undertaking to document contemporary Indian identity. For three years, Wilbur drove more than a quarter million miles from Alaska to the Southwest, Louisiana to Maine, to meet and photograph diverse peoples of the 562 federally recognized Nations of Indigenous Americans. Wilbur began her portrait work with Coast Salish elders in We Are One People. Her other projects include We Emerge on the complexity of contemporary Native American identity, and a one-person exhibition Save the Indian, Kill the Man at The Seattle Art Museum. Indigenous Heritage Month

Join us at 6:00pm for a performance by the Meskwaki Nation dancers prior to the lecture.

No recording or podcast will be available for this event.
Matika Wilbur graduated from the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and also trained at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography.

Cosponsored By:
  • American Indian Faculty & Staff Council
  • American Indian Rights Organization
  • American Indian Studies Program
  • College of Design
  • College of Design Diversity Committee
  • Multicultural Liaison Officers
  • Office of Diversity and Inclusion
  • United Native American Student Association
  • University Museums
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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