Cowboys & Indians

AMERICA MEREDITH

nown for her pop-culture, flat-style approach to painting Cherokee portraits, syllabary, and medicinal formulae, America Meredith is widely regarded as a prominent artist, curator, and educator. She’s also a significant thinker and the editor of . She’s pointed out that humans have laws, but birds and animals have natural laws too that humans must answer to. That Native people have knowledge about how to live on this planet, and Native art is a way to envision this and inspire it. Certainly her own art does so. “It’s for navigating my reality,” she says. “In this era we feel in between forces and fractured, and

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