For Native People, Art is Not Optional
When Sherwin Bitsui was growing up on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, everyone in his family was an artist. They made quilts, jewelry—anything that they could sell to live for awhile,
Volume 10, No. 4 – Summer 1999
When Sherwin Bitsui was growing up on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, everyone in his family was an artist. They made quilts, jewelry—anything that they could sell to live for awhile,
Eleven years ago, Nicole Antoine joined Salish Kootenai College’s Upward Bound program as a Ronan High School freshman. This year she returned to Ronan High School with a master’s degree in social work to become the school social worker. The road from high school freshman to professional social worker wasn’t an easy one.


Essays by Sarah E. Boehme, Gerald T. Conaty, Clifford Crane Bear, Emma I.
Hansen, Mike Leslie, and James H.

Edited by Tim Johnson (Mohawk)
Published by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998
$29.95 paper, $55 cloth
206 pages,