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Courtney M. Leonard
Courtney M. Leonard (born 1980) is a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and activist from the Shinnecock Nation in Long Island, New York. Her work revolves around issues of ecology and Native identity, specifically their intersection with water, which is essential to the Shinnecock. Leonard primarily uses clay and her ceramic artwork has been inspired by the whaling coastal culture of the Shinnecock Nation. She has contributed to the Offshore Art Movement and now focuses on her work, ''BREACH'', which is centered on environmental sustainability. Biography Courtney Leonard was born in 1980 in Long Island, New York. She is a member of the Shinnecock Nation, an indigenous community with historical connections to water, fishing, and whaling. Leonard's early life and her identity was heavily influenced by the coastal way of life of the Shinnecock community. In 2014, Leonard began ''BREACH'', a mixed media project that delves into the multiple definitions of the word, as well as, how it p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinnecock Nation
The Shinnecock Indian Nation is a federally recognized tribe of historically Algonquian peoples, Algonquian-speaking Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans based at the eastern end of Long Island, New York. This tribe is headquartered in Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, on the southeastern shore. Since the mid-19th century, the tribe's landbase is the Shinnecock Reservation within the geographic boundaries of the Town of Southampton (town), New York, Southampton. Their name roughly translates into English as "people of the stony shore". History The Shinnecock were among the thirteen Indian bands loosely based on kinship on Long Island, which were named by their geographic locations, but the people were highly decentralized. The most common pattern of indigenous life on Long Island prior to their economic and cultural destruction - and, on occasion, actual enslavement - by the Europeans was the autonomous village linked by kinship to its neighbors. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
