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"You have to stay conscious with yourself and know about your feelings that you have and just be really in touch with yourself."  

"Designing the regalia was real important because I chose the butterfly... One thing that it symbolizes for me was coming out of the cocoon. Coming out into a new beginning, a new world, you know, venturing out into a new world."

   "I think that it’s important to have your jewelry on when you go places because people will know, ‘Oh, she’s Native American, she has Native American earrings on.'"  
       
  Yolanda Hvizdak, 2004   Yolanda McDowell, 2004   Melissa Elk, 2004