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ISSUE NO. 16, FALL 2017 FEATURES This Other Me: Uses of the Alter Ego in Contemporary Art Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD DEPARTMENTS 22 Recent Developments Seven Directions 16 Tahnee Ahtoneharjo Growingthunder (Kiowa-Muscogee-Seminole) Equine Effigies: Horse Dance 28 Staffs of the Plains Nations Kim Mariette The Community of Contemporary Lumbee Art Nancy Palm Puchner, PhD 34 Edmonia Wildfire Lewis: An Indigenous Woman in Rome Gloria Bell (Métis) 40 Exploring Native Design 18 I Am Anishinaabe RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo) 48 ARTIST PROFILES Kelly Church 48 Odawa-Ojibwe-Potawatomi Basket Weaver Jean Merz-Edwards Jamie Okuma 54 Luiseño-Shoshone-Bannock Beadwork Artist & Designer Karen Kramer 14 Commentary 84 Decentering Durham Nancy Marie Mithlo, PhD (Chiricahua Apache) Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation) James Luna (Payómkawichum-Ipi- Mexican-American) America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) Calendar 92 REVIEWS Art Exhibit Reviews 72 Book Reviews 80 Tony Tiger 60 Muscogee-Seminole-Sac & Fox Mixed Media Artist Mary Jo Watson (Seminole), PhD Film Review 82 Star Wallowing Bull 66 White Earth Ojibwe-Arapaho Painter Sheila Regan Delbridge Honanie (Hopi) Zena Pearlstone, PhD 90 Charles Pratt (Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho) Harvey Pratt (Southern Cheyenne- Arapaho) 91 54 IN MEMORIAM 60 COVER: Star Wallowing Bull (White Earth Ojibwe-Arapaho), detail of Chief Cadillac, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 40 × 30 in. Image courtesy of the Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Cadillac Automobile Company took its name from Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (1658–1730), the French founder of Detroit, Michigan. The General Motors Pontiac brand was named for Pontiac (ca. 1720–1769), the Odawa war chief, who is an ancestor of Kelly Church (Odawa-Ojibwe-Potawatomi), profiled in this issue. 6 | WWW.FIRSTAMERICANARTMAGAZINE.COM 66