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STUDENTS & ALUMNI April 2, 2010 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm  Museum Store and Lloyd Kiva New Gallery, 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (Click here for a map)Michael Sheyahshe (Caddo), author of Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study, will be present for a book signing April 2nd, 2010 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Michael A. Sheyahshe is a member of the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma. He has written for Illusions, Trauma Magazine, Native Peoples, and Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. A cum laude double BA degree holder, he is a Trustee of the Caddo Nation's Heritage Museum and is enrolled in an MFA program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study is a thorough examination and critique of Indigenous cultural representation in American popular culture. It takes an in-depth look at the world of comic books through the eyes of a Native American reader, and offers frank commentary on the medium's cultural representation of Native American people. It addresses a range of portrayals from the bloodthirsty barbarians and noble savages of dime novels to formulaic secondary characters and sidekicks, and occasionally, protagonists sans paternal white hero, examining how and why Native Americans have been consistently marginalized and misrepresented in comics. Chapters cover early representations of Native Americans in popular culture and newspaper comic strips, the Fenimore Cooper legacy, the "white" Indian, the shaman, revisionist portrayals, and Native American comics from small publishers, among other topics. Chris Teuton of World Literature Today says "As a groundbreaking work in the study of the depiction of Native Americans in the medium of comics, Native Americans in Comic Books is a welcome addition to the fields of Native American studies and popular culture studies." For more information about this event, please contact Michael Sheyahshe via email: info@nativecomicbooks.com or call Ryan Rice at 505.428.5922.
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