Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland biography displaying a vibrant palette

displaying a vibrant palette

A Cherokee Story takes place in a time when animals could do many of the things that people do

Drawing works primarily from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania)

and its kinship and traditions on the other

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Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland biography displaying a vibrant paletteZhegagoynak, also called Chicagoland, has long been an Indigenous cultural and economic hub. It is the traditional homeland of the Council of Three Fires the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations. Today, Chicago has the third largest urban Indian population in the United States. Indigenous voices, however, are often absent from stories of Chicagoland. This silence is damaging.