“The border created divisions and conflicts between our communities and within our family,” said Sḵwx̱wú7mesh storyteller and artist T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss, one of the exhibit’s Indigenous curatorial collaborators.

“We have never had the right to address or protest the border,” Wyss added. “As the Indigenous hip-hop group Aztlan Underground states: ‘We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us.’

“Our voices and expressions are helping to bring visibility to the communities where these borders exist.”