Beaded Badge Reels beaded Dancing for Our Tribe portrays

Dancing for Our Tribe portrays the fresh reality of today’s Native descendants and their regalia: people who live in a world of assimilation

Nothing too fancy and not too simple either

Reverses to pattern's opposite

photographer and Citizen Potawatomi Sharon Hoogstraten visited all nine nations of the scattered Potawatomi tribe to construct a permanent record of present-day Potawatomis wearing the traditional regalia passed down through the generations

It's based on a Native American legend that says a hero disguised himself as a rabbit to capture fire for his people

Beaded Badge Reels beaded Dancing for Our Tribe portraysThese beaded badge reels were made by local native artist: Misti Green