I believe historical discourses of ‘Indian’ have constructed a limited and inconsistent visual archive that currently misrepresents our past experiences and misinforms current expectations. Through auto ethnography, I examine internal and external discourses that shape Indigenous identities including Blood Politics and blood quantum. My studio practice maps personal and historical landscapes allowing them to hold space for new complex narratives to exist. Humor, form, gesture, and materiality through assemblage are my tools to disrupt mainstream definitions of ‘Indian’. To have personal, community, and collective histories that reflect the complexity of Native American lives, like my own, is to better understand ourselves, the nation, and necessarily our shared experiences and histories. The past is not past.