From the Earth Renewal series; Pawnee Woman in Field, Hand-tinted, double-exposed black and white photograph, 20" x 24", 1997.


from their families, language and culture. A leading advocate was Tenth Cavalry officer Richard H. Pratt who opened the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879. The woven text of Goshorn’s basket uses the names of some of the 10,000 to 12,000 students who attended Carlisle. Goshorn’s more recent work, Whitewashed,


is a single-weave design. Its featured image displays girls from various tribes standing behind laundry baskets and ironing boards. The Sherman Institute was known for teach-


ing domestic and agricultural sciences; these girls were being instructed to learn a particular skill or trade. Goshorn has also taken up the issue of In-


dian gaming and casinos with her 2013 work Leveling the Playing Field. During her research at the Smithsonian in 2013, as a recipient of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, she was thrilled to find a gambling basket from the Eastern Band of Cherokee. It brought back memories of her time playing Indian dice in Oklahoma with a bowl and carved


pieces of wood. (One side of the die was light and one side dark, either from being carved or burned.) Goshorn also found a photo of Cherokees gambling on an old wooden porch; the porch is something she remembered from her childhood. For her basket weave, she used the text of


the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, which confirmed tribes in their constitutional right to govern gaming on Indian land. On the bottom of the interior, she wove in the photograph of the Cherokee gamblers. She SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 31


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