"My family, my sisters, they’re everything to me. Then my grandma, my mom, everybody. That’s what makes me feel amazing"

"Coming into Lodge Grass I thought okay, nine months and then I'm outta here. But the people are wonderful here, and I really have felt acceptance and loyalty from my peers, my coworkers. And I would like to stay as long as I can.

This has 250 elk teeth, and I have 250 more to go. And I did all the beading myself. My students call me The Woman Who Beads Slowly. "