Betty Gaedtke on a day in December
As a tribal member of the Quapaw five hundred years ago would have probably found the women by the river under a tree talking about the crops of corn, squash and beans, or the three sisters, and pottery, the men were probably out hunting deer or buffalo. Artist Betty Gaedtke is doing what she can as a one-quarter Quapaw, to rebuild what has been called a dying nation, having lost 80% to smallpox. She has said that her mother was a half-blood and noted the full bloods of the tribe have died. Her mother, now recently gone, was the daughter of the oldest pure blood and her mom was the eldest living half blood.
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