Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract education Cree Thunderboy and Lucas Smoke

Cree Thunderboy and Lucas Smoke end up on paths where their biggest challenge is staying true to themselves

The Baldwin family of Montana put labels all over their house marked with the Miami words for common objects and activities

as a history of a Native nation

Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry

honest and propulsive—all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it

Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract education Cree Thunderboy and Lucas SmokeDakota 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