Cross-border forum challenging

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Native art should be allowed to develop along more ways than those established by traditions, says a Comanche writer.

Paul Chaat Smith was a participant in a cross-border forum on Native art and Culture, held in Thunder Bay April 23 and 24. In an interview he discussed the different paths Native art is evolving and how important it is to allow that progression to happen.

"What a lot of people want to do is keep us in a museum, saying this is what Native art must look like. The ethnological approach is a real obstacle to advancing art," Smith said.