into American boarding schools, which were intended to assimilate them into European culture. The piece is one of three pairs that will never be displayed together, as a symbolic way of demonstrating how Indigenous families were torn apart and separated by the American boarding school system. The other two pairs are in the permanent collections of the Alaska State Museum and the Portland Museum. Galanin's silver jewelry, some of which was worn by Erykah Badu, was on display at the museum. At the opening, Galanin felt overwhelmed by questions from the non-Indigenous docents. The Indigenous attendees praised the exhibition because they felt it was empowering. Works (2019) In 2019, Galanin's The Value of Sharpness: When It Falls was displayed at the Open Source Gallery in New York. His work, We Dreamt Deaf was displayed at the Macalester College's Law Warschaw Gallery. It features a taxidermied polar bear from Shishmaref whose hindquarters not stuffed. This work is a criticism of hunting for sport and trophy hunting as well as a statement on how climate change constitutes violent act against animals, like the polar bear, who appears to be melting due to global warming. In 2019, Galanin's work was displayed at the Honolulu Biennial. Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem The Peter Blum Gallery in New York, New York displayed two monotype series created by Nicholas Galanin for the International Fine Print Dealers Association's (IFPDA) 2020 Fall selection of the Fine Art Print Fair. The artworks presented in the two series were made through the process of printmaking. The 2018 monotype series, Everything We’ve Ever Been, Everything We Are Right Now, previously shown at the 2019 Twin Cities Zine Fest, consisted of seven pieces and is "a reference to an ancestral entrance dance where the face is revealed, not masked". A series entitled Let them Enter Dancing and Showing Their Faces is collected in a monograph. Galanin's work shows that Tlingit art is not stagnant or dying, but continues to change and progress. Also, in 2018, Galanin mounted a solo exhibit at Peter Blum Gallery, Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem, which featuring six major works, which explore how Indigenous identity is subverted by American culture. The message was most clearly conveyed by White Noise, American Prayer Rug and The Imaginary Indian (Totem Pole), which provided commentary on the distractions of American culture and a critique of assimilation. Similarly, two