This lecture situates Jeremy Dennis’s artistic and curatorial practice within broader Indigenous frameworks of time, place, and persistence. As a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Dennis foregrounds land as a living archive, challenging colonial narratives that frame Indigenous presence as historical rather than ongoing. Through photography and curatorial work, he examines how Indigenous peoples maintain relationships to place despite centuries of dispossession and imposed erasure. In conversation with the Papunya Tula artists’ visual expressions of ancestral continuity, Dennis explores how contemporary Indigenous artists articulate expansive temporalities that defy colonial occupation and linear historical models. The talk highlights Indigenous art as a method of research, resistance, and relational knowledge production grounded in community and land.