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How fractional heritage complicates artistic identity

I started learning Native American painting traditions to connect with my heritage but I am only one-eighth Cherokee and I feel like a fraud every time I pick up the brush

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The question of cultural belonging becomes acute when artistic practice is used to claim connection to diluted ancestral inheritance.

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