These Native Artists are my ancestors. I feel honored to have them in my bloodline. Our Native American race is comprised of the most talented, peaceful, people, who have been treated over the years as the scum of the earth that they worked so hard to protect. From that standpoint, it pains me to be only part Native, because that means the other part of my ancestors were the offending parties. My great, great, great, ad inf. grandmother walked from Kentucky to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears with no shoes, no coat in the dead of winter and she survived. I’m convince that she is the one who gave me the will to survive in some of the extreme circumstances that have comprised my life. My hat(s) are off to all the Native Americans, the few of us that are left.
