“Intellectual Property is a series of photographs acknowledging Indigenous connection to land, through material, process, community, and spirituality. The works honor the continuum of knowledge transfer and storytelling embodied by ceremonial at.oow; as well as the power of community and land embedded within them. The work exists outside the fetishizing and colonizing of our cultural objects through limited anthropological understanding and categorization. The work functions as a warning of what remains without Indigenous knowledge, and as a celebration of Indigenous creativity without commodification.”

— Nicholas Galanin on the series Intellectual Property