The Cree artist Kent Monkman has a striking alter ego: Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a time-travelling, shapeshifting, gender-fluid agent of imagination who appears in many of his works. With her flowing dark hair, glamorous outfits and red-soled Louboutin heels, she stands out in Monkman’s work alongside his depiction of settlers and colonists.
Monkman hails from the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 territory in Manitoba, and has created art since the 1990s. His richly coloured pieces place Indigenous individuals in settings where they’ve historically been erased. The exhibit is subversive, campy and totally tongue-in-cheek. Miss Chief is the arbiter of that joy, and Being Legendary is, in a sense, her story, told through a text narrative on the walls of the gallery.
“Compositional Study for Our Stories Come from the Land”: This tableau, set before the Sixties Scoop and other forced assimilations, shows Indigenous women laughing and sharing music and harvests around a fire, with Miss Chief’s outline seen in smoke. Some figures are in colourful powwow regalia, as a baby crawls along the ground. It’s a moment of happiness and community, unaware of the terror to come.
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