ISSUE NO . 19 , SUMMER 2018
FEATURES
Great Basin Native Artists : 24 Giving Voice to the Land By Jean Merz-Edwards
The Oklahoma 32 Indian Ballerinas By Stacy Pratt , PhD ( Mvskoke )
A New Era begins at SWAIA : 38 Ira Wilson Chosen as Executive Director By Jason Morgan Edwards ( Seminole )
Beads on a Thread : 42 Reflections on Beading as Performance , Process , Material , and Method in the Arctic By David Winfield Norman
ARTIST PROFILES
John Brent Bennett : 48 Haida Jeweler , Printmaker , and Sculptor By India Rael Young , PhD
Andrea Carlson : 54 Anishinaabe Painter By Sheila Regan
Yatika Starr Fields : 60 Osage-Muscogee-Cherokee Painter By Jami Powell , PhD ( Osage )
Sandy Fife Wilson : 66 Mvskoke Textile Artist and Shell Carver By Stacy Pratt , PhD ( Mvskoke )
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DEPARTMENTS
Recent Developments 16
Seven Directions 20 By Denise Neil-Binion , PhD ( Delaware-Cherokee )
Collections : 88 St . Louis Art Museum By Andrea L . Ferber , PhD
Calendar 94
REVIEWS
Exhibition Reviews 72
Book Reviews 84
EDITORIAL
Nuances of Censorship 86 By Suzanne Newman Fricke , PhD
IN MEMORIAM
James Luna 92 ( Puyukitchum-Ipai- Mexican American ) By Deana Dartt , PhD ( Coastal Chumash )
Bahe Whitethorne Jr . ( Diné ) 93 By America Meredith ( Cherokee Nation )
66 cover Yatika Fields ( Osage-Muscogee- Cherokee ), Prayer for the Bee ' s Return , 2008 , oil of canvas , 73 × 71 in . Image courtesy of the Sam Noble Museum , Norman , Oklahoma .
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