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DESCRIPTION:Go-won-go Mohawk was\, by all accounts\, a larger-than-life per
 sona(s) who seemed to defy labels of any kind. Her 'troubling gender' perf
 ormances were\, for the most part\, confined to the vaudeville stages of N
 orth America and Europe. As the first Native American playwright\, Go-won-
 go's life and the retailing of it is an example of what Scott Lyons refers
  to as 'rhetorical sovereignty\,' the inherent right and ability of people
 s to determine their own communicative needs and desires in this pursuit\,
  to decide for themselves the goals\, modes\, styles\, and languages of pu
 blic discourse' (241). In plying her craft\, Go-won-go Mohawk brought into
  the realm of public discourse a construction of Native American masculini
 ty that differed from popular stereotypes. In her stage performances as th
 e Native American male protagonist in the plays Wep-Ton-No Mah\, The India
 n Mail Carrier\, and The Flaming Arrow\, she did not portray Native Americ
 ans as victims but as the heroes. While Go-won-go deflected the politics o
 f recognition for her own ends\, she also engaged in the ongoing struggle 
 for recognition and justice by Native Americans at the beginning of the tw
 entieth century.\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. Michelle McGeough (Cree Métis/S
 ettler) completed her PhD in Indigenous art history at the University of N
 ew Mexico. Prior to returning to school for her advanced degree\, she taug
 ht Museum Studies at the Institute of American Indian Art and was the Assi
 stant curator at the Wheelwright Museum of the Native American Indian in S
 anta Fe\, New Mexico. Dr. McGeough has a Master’s degree from Carleton Uni
 versity as well as a BFA from Emily Carr and an undergraduate degree from 
 the Institute of American Indian Art. She also has a B.Ed. degree from the
  University of Alberta. Dr. McGeough currently teaches at Concordia Univer
 sity in the Art History department.\n\nDr. McGeough’s research interests h
 ave focused on the indigenous two-spirit identity. She is a board member o
 f daphne\, the first Indigenous artist run centre in Tiohtià:ke. She is a 
 co-applicant in the SSCHR Thinking Through the Museum Partnership grant\, 
 Queer Operatives\, and The Morrisseau Project. Her essays have appeared in
  C-space\, Union Docs\, and an upcoming volume entitled Two-Spirit\, Indig
 iqueer\, and LGBTTQ* Interventions into Museums\, Archives\, and Curation.
  Other areas of her research include the application of Indigenous researc
 h methodologies and the incorporation of these ways of knowing into the de
 velopment of curriculum and the curation of contemporary and historic Indi
 genous art. Currently\, Dr. McGeough teaches Indigenous art histories in C
 oncordia’s Art History department. She is also an independent curator and 
 has curated exhibitions for daphne\, the I.D.E.A. at Colorado College\, th
 e Indigenous Art Center\, in Ottawa and the Museum of Contemporary Native 
 American Art in Santa Fe New\, Mexico.\n\nThis event is presented and made
  possible by the collaboration and support of the Dean of Arts Development
  Fund\, an Anonymous Donor\, the Indigenous Studies and Community Engageme
 nt Initiative (ISCEI) and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \n
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LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Michelle McGeough: 'Go Wan Go Mohawk’s Queering of West'
URL:/ahcs/channels/event/michelle-mcgeough-go-wan-go-m
 ohawks-queering-west-352691
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