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Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist. By Linda M. Waggoner. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xxviii + 355 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.
In my research on Native Americans artists there have been people 1 have been fascinated with yet knew little about. One of these was Angel De Cora (1869-1919), a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) artist I would catch glimpses of in an exhibit at the Heatd Museum ot find in records on the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, her art the cotnetstone of the Indian Service exhibit in the government building. Fortunately for me and for others interested in the lives of individuals who made a difference...