The Fine Art of Being Indigenous

[...]I had dropped out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and had begun to make paintings that illustrated what I was learning of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora oral history. [...]we ended up with everything you could imagine, from the most traditional forms of expression in wood and com husk to modified traditions of metalwork and beadwork, and included more contemporary approaches in clay, stone, textiles, and paintings. [...]most of what we have produced is exported from our communities, or it becomes so expensive that our rank-and-file neighbors cannot afford it.