Future Cache
YOU ARE ON ANISHINAABE LAND
In Andrea Carlson Future Cache, a 40-foot-tall memorial wall towers over visitors, commemorating the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians who were violently burned from their land in Northern Michigan on October 15, 1900. Written across the walls above and around the memorial, a statement proclaims Anishinaabe rights to the land we stand on: “You are on Anishinaabe Land.”
Presented alongside are paintings of imagined decolonized landscapes and a symbolic cache of provisions. Future Cache implicitly asks those who have benefited from the legacies of colonization to consider where they stand and where to go from here and seeks to foster a sense of belonging for displaced Indigenous peoples fighting for restitution.
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Exhibition Closing Event
On the occasion of the closing of Andrea Carlson: Future Cache, Native artists, educators, and world builders Andrea Carlson, Frank Waln, and Debra Yepa-Pappan explore Indigenous Futurism(s)—a movement that transcends colonial boundaries to envision expanded possibilities for Indigenous realities. Through their diverse practices and deep connections with tribal communities, Indigenous organizations, galleries, and public arts spaces, these artists share how art serves as a powerful lens to honor our past, nurture our present, and imagine a thriving future.
Opening & closing performances by Asiginaak-Negamojig / Blackbird Singers and Grandmother Moon Drummers
Exhibition Guide
Learn more about Andrea Carlson: Future Cache installation in UMMA’s vertical gallery in this downloadable Gallery Guide. Print version also available for free at UMMA.
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TRUTH CACHE
A collection of conversations around Anishinaabe powwow practice.
The sound of the drum is the truest sound. Hear our truths.
Video interviews conducted by UMMA’s Student Program Coordinator for Andrea Carlson Future Cache Yrsa Anwatin Peterson
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SUPPORT
Special thanks to the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Margaret Noodin, and Richard A. Wiles, for their consultation on the State Historical Marker text; to Margaret Noodin and Michael Zimmerman, Jr. for translating the gallery texts into Anishinaabemowin; to James Horton and Fritz Swanson for generously producing the letterpress broadsides; to colleagues at the U-M Biological Station, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, U-M Clements Library, and U-M Clark Map Library. For more information on the Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians visit BurtLakeBand.org.
Lead support for Future Cache is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, and the U-M Office of the Provost.
