Craft in America

# The saddle is the singular symbol of the whole#myth of the cowboy.

We are all hardwired to do things with our hands.

The work of our#hands is informing the work of our mind.

[Drums beating and people chanting] At the Institute of American Indian Arts, it is something amazing to be around other indigenous artists to be able to speak art and breathe#art with them.

# [Waves crashing] Doing Hawaiian feather work, I started understanding the ingenuity and the craftsmanship of our ancestors.

[Man singing in Native language] In the seventies, there's no teaching the Hawaiian# language and culture, but building a traditional voyaging canoe became the flashlight that helped Native Hawaiians get out of the dark of the storm.

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