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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Performance Brings Ancestral Women of Wisconsin's 12 Tribes to Life
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:08:04
	Publish Date:		2019-01-04 05:00:00
	Description:		For the last two years, Mary Burns’ exhibit featuring weavings of ancestral women of Wisconsin’s 12 tribes has been traveling around the area. Thanks to a group of women from the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians though, the exhibit is now being brought to life. Mackenzie Martin continues our We Live Up Here series with the story of 22 weavings and one theater performance that together are celebrating native women in Wisconsin. Mary Burns is a fiber artist in Mercer and a couple of years ago she embarked on an ambitious project. She decided to create an exhibit to honor elder women of each of the 12 tribes* in Wisconsin. She didn’t feel like ancestral women in Wisconsin’s tribes were being honored enough. “So I went to the tribes to see if they were interested and if so, who they might want to have honored in the exhibit,” she said. With help from the tribes, she was able to select 12 ancestral women to honor. Then using photographs that they provided, she wove
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