CMU School of Drama


Thursday, January 15, 2026

Carving a Way Forward: The Indigenous Futurity of ‘Skeleton Canoe’

AMERICAN THEATRE: Inside Lincoln Center, one of America’s most prized performance spaces, Mark Denning (Oneida Nation), the cultural consultant and dramaturg for Skeleton Canoe, asked the audience in a pre-show speech to measure time not in years, but in inches. He added that if Indigenous peoples’ time on this land now called America were counted in inches, it would stretch the length of three football fields.

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