Jeneen Frei Njootli
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Jeneen Frei Njootli is a 2SQ Vuntut Gwitchin, Czech, and Dutch artist whose practice ranges across performance, sound, textiles and image work. Their work focuses on reclaiming Indigenous sovereignty in a time of reconciliation, considering the ways in which society continues to perpetuate the ongoing violence and displacement of Indigenous peoples. Njootli values the knowledge embedded in ancestor and family histories in relation to decolonial processes. By troubling systems of power, Njootli centers Indigenous ways of being. In their repeated gestures of refusal and reclamation, they create spaces that foreground the diversity, intellect, and the resiliency of their people.
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Jeneen Frei Njootli is a 2SQ Vuntut Gwitchin, Czech, and Dutch artist whose practice ranges across performance, sound, textiles and image work. Their work focuses on reclaiming Indigenous sovereignty in a time of reconciliation, considering the ways in which society continues to perpetuate the ongoing violence and displacement of Indigenous peoples. Njootli values the knowledge embedded in ancestor and family histories in relation to decolonial processes. By troubling systems of power, Njootli centers Indigenous ways of being. In their repeated gestures of refusal and reclamation, they create spaces that foreground the diversity, intellect, and the resiliency of their people.