The third section of the World Longest Native American Painting was created in 2010-2011.

 

In this third installation Daniel focuses on cultural education and the role   of indigenous women “passing on our traditions”. Using his family and   friends he depicts the role of the mothers teaching their daughters how to keep alive their Culture using different art forms.

 

From Left to Right : you will discover the following Tribes:     

 

* Navajo Nation : Dine friend Virginia Boone blesses the entire painting with her bundle of sage

teaching her daughter Sika about the medicinal properties of plants.

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* Four Ojibwe Women from Michigan : Here Daniel pays homage to his family with the introduction of his first great niece Autumn, his mother Helen, his grandmother Izola and his great grandmother Bessie.

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*Pomo Miwok from California :  Dr. Julia Parker, a long time visitor guide of the Yosemite National Forest teaches her granddaughter how to make baskets.

 

* Apache Tribe of Arizona : famous for their ancestral Basketry traditions.

 

* Tohono O’odham Community of Southerm Arizona : traditionally dressed basketmaker presenting an iconic friendship basket made from bear grass.

 

* Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Tribe of South and North Dakota :    Famous artist Charlene Holy Bear teaching how to make the traditional prairie dolls using beadwork and quillwork.

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*Jemez Pueblo of New Mexico : Mary Small teaching her granddaughter how to build red clay pots.

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* Menominee of Wisconsin : dressed in their white buckskin outfit these women are presenting the new baby traditionally carried in the cradle board.

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* Potawatomi of the Great Lakes : Strawberry picker and her daughter teaching the sacredness of the berries, one of the four sacred foods given by the Creator to the People. 

 

* Ho-Chunk from Wisconsin : The traditional grandmother wears the Elk Tooth Dress.     

 

* Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin and New York : Women teaching the young girls about the sacredness of the Jingle Dress.

 

* Santa Domingo Pueblo of New Mexico : Carol Pacheco teaching her daughter and grand daughters traditional string jewelry made from the rough nuggets of turquoise.

 

* Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma : LaDonna Harris, politician and activist was the first Indigenous Woman to run for Vice President and founded the American Indian Opportunity Caucus to help the next generations with their careers.

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* Yakama Tribe of Washington : Pearl WakWak traditional dancer from the Colville Reservation.

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* Santa Domingo Pueblo of New Mexico : Linda Tenorio, matriarch and traditional potter.