In the Court of the Conqueror
Date & Time
Saturday, October 26
3:00 p.m.
Venue
Tacoma Armory
Tickets
$35
Event Details
A solo performance by artist George Emilio Sanchez with projections and visual storytelling by visual artist Patty Ortiz. Together, they confront the history of how the courts have diminished the Tribal Sovereignty of Native Nations.
The piece also tells the story of Sanchez’s experiences of navigating generational trauma regarding his Indigenous identity while being raised in an Ecuadorian Immigrant household. The work focuses on several Federal Indian Landmark cases, leading up to the Johnson v. M’Intosh 1823 Supreme Court case that applied the Doctrine of Discovery that still holds legal precedent in our courts of the conqueror. Sanchez and Ortiz traveled across hundreds of geographic miles and ancestral homelands to create this interdisciplinary performance that combines text and video projects to reveal this country’s ongoing conflicts with Native Nations in search of Indigenous justice and sovereignty.
Pricing Details
Tickets: $35
Groups of 10+ can purchase by calling the Box Office at 253.346.1721.
With support from
…walk a path of learning and living to address the historic marginalization and ongoing inequities experienced by our Coast Salish neighbors, and share the responsibility to care for this place, their homelands, where we all live. learningrightrelations.org
“In the Court of the Conqueror is in the first rank of productions communicating the legal and emotional complexity at the heart of indigenous rights issues in the United States. I cannot recommend it highly enough."
