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Article: Native peoples aren't dinosaurs.(Commentary)(Native Americans face unique insults to cultural identity through stereotypes, popular mythology and sports mascots)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2006
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Byline: Rennard Strickland For The Register-Guard
On Sept. 6 The Register-Guard published a story about American Indian artist Jenny `Chapoose' Taylor and her beaded art. She grew up on the Vintah-Ovray Reservation in northeastern Utah, where at 9 years of age she learned traditional Indian beading techniques from her aunt.
Although rejected from the Eugene Mayor's Art Show, the work, titled `Nations,' has become a part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Taylor said she looked forward to going to Washington to `maybe get to meet the director.'
The same morning ...