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The Ancestors They Share: Why Amerindian Art Should Be Valued Like Australian Aboriginal Art
The Ancestors They Share: Why Amerindian Art Should Be Valued Like Australian Aboriginal Art
The world pays millions for Australian Aboriginal art. Caribbean Amerindian art — from a people genetically connected to those same ancient Pacific navigators — remains invisible to that same market.... Read more...
The Face Behind the Mask, Part III: Benin, the Secret Societies & the Reclamation
The Face Behind the Mask, Part III: Benin, the Secret Societies & the Reclamation
Part III of The Face Behind the Mask — the Benin Kingdom's bronze tradition, the Poro and Sande secret societies of Liberia and Sierra Leone, and the living Indigenous mask... Read more...
The Face Behind the Mask, Part II: India, the Pacific, the Caribbean & the Americas
The Face Behind the Mask, Part II: India, the Pacific, the Caribbean & the Americas
Part II of our ancestral masks series — India, Aotearoa New Zealand, Fiji, South America, and the Caribbean. From Theyyam possession rituals to Inca gold death masks, Māori tā moko,... Read more...
Aboriginal Populations Have One Thing In Common: Their Masks - Livity Tree Art
The Face Behind the Mask: Ancestral Masks Across the World
A journey across continents and centuries — Africa, Papua New Guinea, Celtic Ireland, Asia, and North America — to sit with the peoples who kept ancestral mask traditions alive, and... Read more...
Leaena de Judah - Livity Tree Art
Leaena de Judah
Two lionesses, across an impossible distance: the Ethiopian queen-line of the Lion of Judah — Makeda and Empress Taytu, who founded Addis Ababa and helped win Adwa — and Leaena... Read more...
Barauda and the Mothers Who Carried a Nation Across the Sea - Livity Tree Art
Barauda and the Mothers Who Carried a Nation Across the Sea
The empire tried to delete an entire people from a single island. It tied the hands of the divine feminine and struck the mothers from the record. It could not... Read more...
Maternity: A Reclamation - Livity Tree Art
Maternity: A Reclamation
On Picasso’s mother in blue, the 1662 law that turned the womb into an instrument of inheritance, and the Guadeloupean matriarch they kept alive only long enough to deliver a... Read more...
The Shinnecock Indians: Black Indigenous Guardians of the Hamptons - Livity Tree Art
The Shinnecock Indians: Black Indigenous Guardians of the Hamptons
    The Untold Story of the First People of Long Island — Before Columbus, Before Colonization, Before Erasure.   “We didn’t come from somewhere else. We didn’t migrate here.... Read more...
The Ones Who Remembered: St. David's Island and the Native American Slave Trade to the Caribbean - Livity Tree Art
The Ones Who Remembered: St. David's Island and the Native American Slave Trade to the Caribbean
    When they tell you Caribbean Indigenous peoples went "extinct," they're asking you to forget. When they say the Taíno, Kalinago, and Arawak "disappeared," they're demanding your amnesia. But... Read more...
Anthony Joyette: The Legacy of Livity Tree Art - Livity Tree Art
Anthony Joyette: The Legacy of Livity Tree Art
How a Montreal Artist-Poet’s Vision Continues Through Caribbean Cultural Reclamation Read more...
Weaving Ancestral Wisdom: The Spiritual Meaning Behind Sacred Symbols - Livity Tree Art
Weaving Ancestral Wisdom: The Spiritual Meaning Behind Sacred Symbols
Sacred symbols like the Ouroboros and triple spiral aren’t just art—they carry ancestral messages that shape who you are. These ancient spirals and Egyptian symbolism hold stories of survival and... Read more...
The First Mothers: Trees as Our Earthly Ancestors - Livity Tree Art
The First Mothers: Trees as Our Earthly Ancestors
The Great Mothers:For millennia, Indigenous peoples have known that forests are communities, that trees communicate, that elder trees care for their young. Colonial science dismissed this as “primitive animism”—until it... Read more...
Hector Hyppolite: When the Spirits Paint Through You - Livity Tree Art
Hector Hyppolite: When the Spirits Paint Through You
When Hyppolite picked up a brush, he wasn't just making art. He was performing ceremony on canvas. What made Hyppolite's work so powerful—and so threatening to colonial narratives of "primitive"... Read more...
The Great Erasure: How Census Systems Severed Indigenous Identity Across the Americas - Livity Tree Art
The Great Erasure: How Census Systems Severed Indigenous Identity Across the Americas
In archives across North and South America lies evidence of one of history’s most systematic acts of bureaucratic violence: the deliberate misclassification of indigenous peoples in official records. From the... Read more...
The Kalinago: Forgotten Masters of Caribbean Indigenous Art - Livity Tree Art
The Kalinago: Forgotten Masters of Caribbean Indigenous Art
Discover the sophisticated art of the Kalinago people, from Caribbean head carvings to mysterious Georgia stelae, revealing ancient networks across the Americas. Read more...
Embracing Livity: How Rastafari Spirituality Fuels the Modern Spiritual Movement - Livity Tree Art
Embracing Livity: How Rastafari Spirituality Fuels the Modern Spiritual Movement
In the tapestry of spiritual traditions, the concept of Livity shines brightly as a beacon of hope and inspiration. Rooted in the rich soil of Rastafari spirituality, it offers seekers... Read more...