Three Songs (2022)

In this series of three videos American Indian women sing the history of a landscape including its present past and future where a conflict displacement or massacre of their tribe took place The songs reference the Navajo Long Walk the Trail of Tears and resulting drownings in the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers and the removal of the Seminole people from their homelands Chacon describes These songs of resistance with only a snare drum as accompaniment become a sonic testimony an acknowledgement of shared survival and a healing call in their mother tongues