Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Laurie Houseman-Whitehawk is a Santee Sioux-Winnebago Indian artist whose portrait, figure, and genre paintings explore her heritage. However she was not much aware of her ethnicity until she was an adult pursuing her art talent.
At the age of two, she was taken from her Indian family and placed in the Nebraska State Children's Home and was adopted by a white family. With her family, she moved to Shawnee Mission, Kansas and attended schools in Johnson County but (showing 500 of 2039 characters). |
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