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In the recent years the world has had a chance to experience women in an entirely different way. Society has gotten a taste of women artists that have emerged all over the world. There are a number of American Indian women that have rare and amazing ability when it comes down to art and pottery. Some women potters have chosen to go as far as leaving their reservations in order to peruse a college education in pottery and the arts. These women have made it known that they want to take their talent to the professional level and they are special in their own way. But on the other side, there is a group of women that have not chosen this road. Instead, this other group of women have chosen to maintain a traditional Indian lifestyle. They stay on their own reservation and only learn what others teach them and grow on their own gifts and talents. They use there own ideas and experiment in new ways to make their pottery express who they are as individuals. They have reached the professional l...

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