Jeff Thomas
A Study of Indian-ness
Essay by Richard William Hill

64 pages, hardcover, b/w illustrations
$ 20.00 + GST

Jeff Thomas’s work brings together myriad representations of "Indians," which interrogate, destabilize, and reinvigorate one another. In juggling multiple histories, Thomas inscribes his own questions, his own journey—that of an urban Iroquois of the Six Nations Reserve and of the city of Buffalo, NY—into the larger record of Aboriginal representation. Richard Hill’s essay, Jeff Thomas: Working Histories, explores Thomas’s influence on a generation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists, curators, critics, and viewers. Tracking his own development as a critical thinker and curator, Hill describes some of Thomas’s strategies and evaluates the impact his work has on redressing the narrow identity ascribed to urban First Nations peoples. Following this essay is an image and text narrative, entitled Intersection, by Jeff Thomas. Not satisfied with the role of mute observer/photographer, Thomas uses the written word as well as pictorial language as a means of reclaiming Indian-ness.

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