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the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book

the efforts of Native Americans to save their lands from being taken away by the U

The intimate and interested narrative voices carry the readers

or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response

Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract Diné (Navajo) Windy falls asleep under theDakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great granddaughter of respected nineteenth century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America's first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty dollar bill). Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896, she was largely self taught. Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork, quilling, and hide painting, she also