“Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition" The exhibit is being hosted by Bard College and Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, a Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) project. Curated by Rethinking Place Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Olivia Tencer and Rethinking Place Administrative Coordinator Melina Roise, the groundbreaking exhibition features works by contemporary Indigenous photographers, Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe), and Wendy Red Star (Apsaalooke [Crow]); a written commission by the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican); and archival records of local land transfers and the United States’ Indian boarding school history. The display centers on the lives of Indigenous families, particularly women and children, and delves into the experiences of Native peoples facing settler colonialism, with a specif