Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract Nakota what it has been

what it has been

harvests wild rice and maple sugar

and illustrator

Cell Traffic presents new poems and uncollected prose poetry along with selected work from award-winning poet Heid Erdrich's three previous poetry collections

with different characteristics and traditions cultivated over two centuries

Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract Nakota what it has beenDakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great granddaughter of respected nineteenth century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America's first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty dollar bill). Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896, she was largely self taught. Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork, quilling, and hide painting, she also