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Article: Tree Tradition Has More Gifts to Share
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 24, 1995
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About a dozen years ago Sharon Skolnick's little daughter Vonda
visited the "Christmas Around the World" exhibit at the Museum of
Science and Industry and said, "Mommy, where's our tree?"
It was a couple of years before Skolnick, an American Indian of
Apache and Lakota Sioux descent, called the museum and began the
process that resulted in the Native American tree, one of the most
popular in the exhibit.
Over the years, Skolnick has enlisted the help of 30 Indian
tribes, most of them from the upper Midwest, to make feather
ornaments, "dreamcatchers," tiny canoes and tepees, and all the other
handmade ornaments that draw visitors to this bright, non-traditional
tree every year.
Skolnick ...