Drawing on a wide array of historical sources

By drawing on Indigenous perspectives on the land as kin

For the traveling exhibition

Ross called for all Cherokees

but even as Da' investigates these signifiers of measurement

The Painted Drum - Large Print Tongva Drawing on a wide arrayThis is the large print edition. While appraising the estate of a New Hampshire family descended from a North Dakota Indian agent, Faye Travers is startled to discover a rare moose skin and cedar drum fashioned long ago by an Ojibwe artisan. And so begins an illuminating journey both backward and forward in time, following the strange passage of a powerful yet delicate instrument, and revealing the extraordinary lives it has touched and defined.