Peggy Fontenot is a successful Native American artist who can’t call her work “Native made” or “Indian made” in Oklahoma because of a recently passed law. The law narrowed the definition of Native artist to only people from federally recognized tribes; Fontenot is from a state recognized tribe, the Patawomeck.
She is suing the state over the law, saying that it violates her free speech rights. “To call every state-recognized tribe fake and illegitimate is just broad sweeping and wrong,” Fontenot told Reason.
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