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INTRODUCTION What makes Sioux art "Sioux" or even "American Indian"? Examine the art below by contemporary art below and identify what attributes encourage you to identify it as "Indian" or "Sioux." Are these attributes also present in the Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Art given below? What difference does it make that the contemporary artists are often using canvas and paint as their media instead of hides, shirts, or beads? You may find it interesting to click on the artists' names an read about how they (or their galleries) characterize themselves. What do the artists (or galleries) emphasize? How do their implied definitions of "Sioux" or "Indian" relate to those given in the Introduction to American Indian Literature? You might also want to read this discussion about the legal defintion of "American Indian Art." Contemporary Sioux Artists OSCAR HOWE   DONALD D. RULEAUX   CARL WINTERS   MERLE LOCKE Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Sioux Art   SIOUX HIDE PAINTING, NINETEENTH CENTURY   BEADWORK