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chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas

The volume also includes a chronology of important dates in Diné history by Jennifer Nez Denetdale

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Turning the Feather Around: My Life in Art humor Native nations were forced fromGrowing up in a large family ("we didn't know we were poor"), George Morrison bartered pictures with town kids and carved trinkets to sell to tourists. Encouraged by good high school teachers at Grand Marais, he attended art school in Minneapolis, then moved to New York City. At the Art Students League, George went about becoming an artist in earnest, absorbing the excitement of the new American style, Abstract Expressionism; showing his work in