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Mary Fire Thunder [Wright]

By David Humphreys Miller. Colored pencil and crayon on tinted art paper, drawn from life c. 1940, unsigned. 10"x8". The young woman in this portrait is probably Mary Ora Fire Thunder (aka Red Bird Woman), daughter of Joseph and Dora Fire Thunder, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She married Theodore E. Wright, Sr. in 1948 and has been a committed activist for Indian rights in the Rapid City area.


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