Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland biography and its kinship and traditions

and its kinship and traditions on the other

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" Cora isn't afraid of the white men who remove her to a school across the country to be "civilized

and by understanding how stories work

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Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland biography and its kinship and traditionsZhegagoynak, also called Chicagoland, has long been an Indigenous cultural and economic hub. It is the traditional homeland of the Council of Three Fires the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations. Today, Chicago has the third largest urban Indian population in the United States. Indigenous voices, however, are often absent from stories of Chicagoland. This silence is damaging.