wiGw@m

As part of STTLMNT Digital Occupation, artist Haley Greenfeather English constructed a contemporary wigwam structure and presented video documentation of the creation process in through VLOG updates, presented on this page.

By weaving together ancestral architecture and her own aesthetic, the Haley Greenfeather English created a structure built at her home in the forest of Tijeras, New Mexico. The wiGw@m holds space for English’s late maternal and paternal grandparents. It symbolizes reclamation of culture and reconciliation between settler and Native American families by interpreting narratives of kinship existing within her own Indigenous and non-Indigenous family history.