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Article: NATIVE AMERICAN ART AND MYTHSAT AN ALBANY MIDDLE SCHOOL, A SENECA ARTIST TEACHES PAINTING WHILE DEBUNKING STEREOTYPES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- November 14, 1995
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Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer
Carson Waterman, a contemporary Native American artist, is at the front of the classroom, back to the blackboard.
And the 12 seventh-graders from Mary Farnam's English class at the Philip Livingston Magnet Academy in Albany have a lot on their minds.
Waterman tells the kids to fire away.
``Do you live in a cave?''
``No,'' says Waterman, a soft-spoken bear of a man. He lives in a house, much like the ones in Albany, with his wife and daughter on the Allegany reservation in the small town of Salamanca in Cattaraugus County near New York state's border with Pennyslvania. He says he actually ...