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Using Indigenous scholarship and personal and contemporary cultural experiences in the visual arts, combined with critical historical and political analysis, But have we arrived? explores liberalism’s failed promises to Indigenous artists against the politics of inclusion in the arts. Written from the perspective of a practicing artist and curator, Morrissette argues for the need to evaluate the spaces of inclusion that have been made for Indigenous people within a previously exclusionary centre of artistic representation.

Morrissette compares the development of recognition-based politics in Canada with liberal inclusionary progress in the arts. Expanding on this context with examples of inclusionary politics within other areas of Canadian society, But have we arrived? calls for an examination of attitudes towards Indigenous rights and knowledge by those in positions of privilege and power. A unique contribution designed to inform policy formation, elaborate upon the Truth and Reconciliation’s Calls to Action, and create change within museum and arts council practices in Canada, the book is the first scholarly effort to serve these purposes by adopting an interdisciplinary approach that places artistic developments into conversation with political histories in Canada.