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Native American Artists

Mercedes Dorame

As an undergraduate student at UCLA, Los Angeles photographer Mercedes Dorame remembers pulling an old book about indigenous people off the shelf. Flipping through the pages, she discovered a shocking claim; the book said that the Gabrielino-Tongva Tribe — historically known as the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians — had been wiped out by disease.

A different subject yet I really enjoy the objects that Dorame uses here..

Read the reast of the article on these artists here, which is very exciting work

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