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Collection of State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory

Amanda Thompson

Craft Research Fund Grant

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2023

Florida Native Seminole and Miccosukee Patchwork in a Settler Colonial Context

“Florida Native Seminole and Miccosukee Patchwork in a Settler Colonial Context” is a dissertation that considers patchwork in the intercultural contexts of tourism, development, and appropriation, to understand craft as a site of Native agency and settler colonial negotiation.

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Providence, RI

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Selected works

Lena Osceola Frank (Seminole), Doll, 1941, palmetto and cotton. Collection of Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology (E418451-0)

Postcard. A member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida sewing colorful Indian dress, 1954. Miami: Gulf Stream Card & Distributing Co. Collection of State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/268157

Irving M. Peithmann, Deaconess Harriet Bedell standing in front of the Glade Cross Mission Sign, c.1955. Collection of State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/164409