Native Art Department International is a collaborative project created in 2016 and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan. Their work–spanning panel talks, collective art-making, performances, theater, sculpture, and video–has often addressed critical issues relevant in the art world while integrating art historical and references from Native American and Canadian art. Within this context, they have examined systems of support and created strategies to challenge narratives that essentialize and instrumentalize artists’ practices based on their identities. More specifically, their practice explores the potential of collaborative and collective ways of working and producing art to challenge the dominant (art) historical canons and rectify the absence of overlooked narratives and perspectives.