Photo of collection object I'M GONNA RUN WITH EVERY MINUTE I CAN BORROW
John Little Sun Murie. I'M GONNA RUN WITH EVERY MINUTE I CAN BORROW, 2019. Buckskin, glass beads, brass studs, brass sequins, cotton fabric, each moccasin: 6 × 5 1/4 × 15 in. (15.2 × 13.3 × 38.1 cm). Mary Smith Dorward Fund, 2020.17a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

I'M GONNA RUN WITH EVERY MINUTE I CAN BORROW

2019

John Little Sun Murie

Pawnee/Cree, born 1975

Arts of the Americas

As part of his 2020 exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Jeffrey Gibson commissioned a pair of beaded moccasins from the artist John Little Sun Murie to adorn this early twentieth-century bronze, which portrays a stereotyped “dying” Native warrior. Through this gesture, Gibson and Murie interrupt the myth that Native Americans were doomed to extinction, one perpetuated by traditional narratives of U.S. history and sculptures like this one.

The title of Murie’s moccasins, rendered in beadwork at Gibson’s request along each shoe’s buckskin edge, comes from Roberta Flack’s song “See You Then.” Gibson and Murie honor the Native subject rendered anonymous by the sculpture’s original artist, reclaiming his story as one of dignity, strength, and survival.
Classification
Clothing
Formatted Medium
Buckskin, glass beads, brass studs, brass sequins, cotton fabric
Dimensions
each moccasin: 6 × 5 1/4 × 15 in. (15.2 × 13.3 × 38.1 cm)
Inscribed
Beaded inscription: "I’M GONNA RUN WITH EVERY MINUTE I CAN BORROW"
Accession Number
2020.17a-b
Credit Line
Mary Smith Dorward Fund
Dominant Colors

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