Respect and gratitude for making STTLMNT possible:

Special thanks to:

STTLMNT Digital Occupation US Producer Ginger Dunnill, who has worked countless hours over two years to first produce the Indigenous artists into the initial iteration of the onsite engagement in Plymouth, UK and then in light of the global pandemic to pivot with grace and resilience to produce STTLMNT Digital Occupation and design this Site, creating a bridge between worlds. Who, no matter the hour or circumstance has made space for each artist represented to feel supported and truly a part of community, providing one on one attention for all the participating artists, which is necessary for a project like this to thrive. Thank you for all you do behind the scenes, the extent to which very few of us will every truly know. You are a model of integrity and your work and community building is a gift to the world.

STTLMNT/Settlement Native American concept Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger for your continued radical visionary approach to creating work that is holistic, future based and community driven. For taking a project that at its root was deeply challenging and heavy and then cracking open the narrative to include the voices of so many Indigenous artists to take up space with you and create work that for generations to come will dismantle global stereotypes and misconceptions that have been placed upon Indigenous people of North America through a European gaze. Thank you for always challenging us to be better humans, not through your words alone but through your actions and willingness to try, to learn, to fail and to always strive to find the way forward with all of us, together.

Settlement UK producers Fiona Evans and sister Karen Evans aka The Conscious Sisters , for your tireless work for over two years on this project with Cannupa Hanska Luger and the artists he has invited to join him on this project. For listening, learning and standing beside us in true solidarity. From allowing Cannupa to expand and decolonize the initial vision of an encampment in your town of Plymouth, UK, to the continued work you do within your city to bring depth and understanding to the complexity of the living and varied Native American experience, educating yourselves and your greater community around the critical nature of this work and in turn learning about your own connection to place. For your willingness to dive deep into what it means to be an accomplice to Native people and your ability to take a back seat and allow this work to come to life from a truly Indigenous perspective. You have been there to support the project and yet trusted us to curate, conceptualize and create this work on our terms, as something exceptional for the global community to learn and heal from.

STTLMNT Film Series Director and Producer Razelle Benally of Red Brigade Films, for envisioning a tender and radical path forward for our STTLMNT Digital Occupation through film. Your concept of creating a mini documentary series to accompany our new online platform, by filming a selection of our participating artists as they shelter in place across Turtle Island has been one of the most powerful moments of connection through this project, in light of our need to shift to a digital platform from an onsite engagement. You have created a healing way for us all to be in community and share our vulnerability with each other as Indigenous Artists even though we are not together at this time, and then you have allowed a way for us to share our vision, our work and our experiences as Indigenous people on our terms with the global community. This work will be something to carry us all forward into the future in a way we cannot yet see, we are so grateful for your vision and work. And thank you to Red Brigade Films Cinematographer/Assistant Adam Conte for your incredible work and support for this aspect of our Digital Occupation.

And massive gratitude to each and every Artist representing in STTLMNT Digital Occupation. This project exists because you believe with us that the time is now that we take back our narrative in the global community. That we tell our own stories as Indigenous people from over 500 Nations, with varied cultures and views about the world and our relationship to it. We are dismantling colonialism by our kaleidoscopic existence and as we create our own spaces, we remind the world of the complexity that colonialism could not extinguish, and here were are changing the course of the future to remember us forevermore.

Thank you to STTLMNT participating Artists and their collaborators:

Dakota Alcantara-Camacho (Matao from Låguas)

Jade Begay (Tesuque Pueblo/Diné)

Razelle Benally (Oglala Lakota/Diné)

Autumn Chacon (Diné)

Raven Chacon (Diné)

Nanibah Chacon (Diné)

Dayna Danger (Metis Federation of Manitoba)

Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock Indian Nation / Hassanamisco-Nipmuc)

Demian Dinéyazhi ́ (Diné)

Yatika Starr Fields (Osage, Muscogee Creek, Cherokee)

Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit, Unangax)

Haley Greenfeather English (Red Lake and Turtle Mountain Chippewa)

Raven Halfmoon (Caddo Nation of Oklahoma)

Stina Hamlin (Cherokee)

Sterlin Brown Harjo Jr (Seminole/Muscogee Creek)

Elisa Lorraine Harkins (Muscogee Creek and Cherokee)

Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation)

Emily Johnson (Yup'ik)

Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq, Athabascan)

Ian Kuali’i (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian, Apache)

Tania Larsson (Gwich’in)

Dylan McLaughlin (Diné)

Camas Logue/ Black Belt Eagle Scout (Klamath Modoc Yahooskin)

Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara / Lakota)

Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache)

Katherine Paul/ Black Belt Eagle Scout (Swinomish / Iñupiat)

Eric-Paul Riege (Diné)

Christine Howard Sandoval (Obispeño Chumash)

Rory Erler Wakemup (Boise Fort Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe)

Marie Watt (Cattauragus Territory Seneca Nation of Indians, Turtle Clan)

Kathy Elkwoman Whitman (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara)

Tania Willard (Secwépemc Nation)

SANTIAGO X (Koasati (Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana) / Chamoru (Indigenous of Guam U.S.A.))