a perpetrator of genocide". An opinion piece by Georgy Manaev criticized the movement to remove the statue, citing an overzealous cancel culture as the movement's motivation. Manaev stated that Baranov "wasn’t the first to start the conflict between the Russians and the native Alaskan tribes", which led him to believe that Baranov's statue shouldn't be the targeted for removal. Music Nicholas Galanin began his solo project under the stage name Silver Jackson, and is part of a collective called The Black Constellation. He started his own record label and a music festival called Home Skillet Festival. He released his first extended play, Moves Like Music in 2007. He released his debut album, which was self-titled, in 2008. In 2009, he released his sophomore album Thought I Found Gold. In 2011, Silver Jackson released a single, "Wild Woman" and in 2012, an album entitled It's Glimmering Now. In 2014, Silver Jackson released two promotional singles; "Perfect Mistake" and "You and I Should Try Again" followed by the studio album, Starry Skies Open Eyes. In 2016, he released a single entitled "Impetus Epoch". Silver Jackson's music was featured on an Indigenous Futurism Mixtape. Silver Jackson produced the music for the documentary, Lineage: Tlingit Art Across Generations. In 2017, Galanin formed a band with Otis Calvin III and Zak Dylan Wass called Indian Agent. The group released the promotional single entitled "Life Keeps On Spinning" from their debut album, Meditations in The Key of Red which was also released in 2017. In 2018, the group released the two-track single entitled "All I Sea". Activism Galanin speaks on issues of colonialism and environmentalism. Galanin spoke at the University of North Dakota Writers Conference. In 2019, Galanin was one of the seventy-five artists that were selected to present work in the Seventy-Ninth Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. Selection by Whitney denotes an artist who is at the "forefront of American contemporary art" and provides them with valuable market exposure and important recognition. On July 19, 2019, Galanin and three other artists sent a letter to Whitney, asking that their work to be withdrawn from the exhibition. They protested against the presence of the Whitney Board of Trustees vice chair Warren B. Kanders, who owns the tear-gas producing company Safariland. A day later, they were joined by four additional artists, who also wished to withdraw their artwork. Others joined the protest. Kanders resigned, and the