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Kansas City Art Institute, Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO

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Kansas City Art Institute, Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO

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Kansas City Art Institute, Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO

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Jacobs graduated here with a BFA in sculpture and creative writing in 1979, two years after he completed his AFA. He is described as a visual artist as well as a poet. Many of his collages have been collected and placed in Museums such as The Museum of Anthropology in Berlin and the Sothern plains Indian museum along with a few others. In the book Living Nations, Living Worlds, his poem "Trudell" showcases the fear instilled in the Native American people from what the American people did to them. It shows how scared they were and how they were forced to change or they would be killed.

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Alex Jacobs lived here for twenty-seven years and continuously travels back here for work. He graduated from The Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in 1977 with an AFA in Fine arts. He is a professor at the University of New Mexico starting in 1991. He teaches something called "painting with fabrics" that takes from his Mohawk mother and Grandmother.

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St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, Akwesasne, New York

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St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, Akwesasne, New York

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St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, Akwesasne, New York

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Alex Jacobs is a Mohawk visual artist, spoken word poet, and freelance writer, based on the St. Regis Mohawk Territory on the border between New York and Canada. He also lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for twenty-seven years, and travels there to work on art and poetry projects, and to attend Indian art markets.

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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Cathy Tagnak Rexford earned her MFA from the University of British Colombia and is currently pursuing a PhD. She won the National Theatre Conference (NTC) Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award winner back in 2022 This made Rexford the first Native American playwriter to receive this award. Her poetry has appeared in various projects such as her piece "Black Ice" appeared in Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim (2009). Rexford has worked on short films and plays as well.

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Rexford currently lives and writes in Boulder. She resides her with her husband and son. She started her poem, "A Map of First Peoples Poetry" in 2011 in Alaska and finished it in 2020 at her home in Colorado. It represented her moving away from her homelands physically but she would always remember and go back to them.

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Cathy Tagnak Rexford (Iñupiaq) is a playwright, poet, and fiction writer from Anchorage and Kaktovik, Alaska

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Boston has always been my goal. Ever since I was a little kid, I've wanted to be a lawyer. Around age 12, I flew to Boston for the first time and instantly fell in love. My older cousin was touring the BU campus and I tagged along. Instantly it's where I knew I wanted to be. It's my dream to attend law school and start my career here. Something about it provides a sense of home to me and it's where I see myself in the future.

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I was born and raised in Fort Mill. It's a town on the smaller side where you go to school with the same people from kinder garden to 12th grade. It is a town full of very privileged people so I felt out of place and wasn't exposed to a multitude of things. My perspective on things was very limited and one sided but it taught me to seek out other peoples opinions and perspectives. I learned that there's not just one right answer.

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This is where my mom is from and it holds a lot of great memories for me. We go at least once a year in the summer, but the most memorable time was when we went during December and got snowed in. The snow was the same height as the house. My mom's whole family lives there so when we visit, it's always a big event and we always have something going on.