Notice the care with which [Edmonia] Lewis sculpted their [Minnehaha, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha (1855), and the arrow maker – Minnehaha’s father] deer-hide moccasins and perhaps paid homage to her two aunts, who made and sold moccasins in her ancestral Anishinaabeg homeland.
– America Meredith, ‘In Focus: Edmonia Lewis: The Old Arrow Maker’ in Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Teri Greeves (eds) ‘Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. University of Washington Press, 2019.
