Interdisciplinary artist Ty Defoe, who lives in Brooklyn, is hoping his art and performances will give a voice to Native Americans and their history.
New York City is one of the most populated urban areas for Native Americans with 110,000 living throughout its five boroughs. They are all unique and individual.” New York Natives ask for their stories to be told “I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all policy of reparations for Indian tribes in the U.S.,” Matthew Fletcher, a foundation professor of law at Michigan State University, told “Nightline.” “There are 574 federally recognized tribes.
For those living today, reparations come in many forms, as that which was taken away from them over the years varies as well. Native Americans across what is now the United States have been fighting for their land and culture ever since Juan Ponce de León became the first European to invade the country in Florida in 1513. And in upstate New York, the Iroquois people are demanding that the true history of the United States is told and that the treaties they signed hundreds of years ago are recognized. In San Francisco, the Ohlone are fighting for a land to call their own. In Oklahoma, the people of the Muscogee Creek Nation Reservation have just won their long-standing fight for sovereignty.
