This may be a surprise to those outside of Chicago’s Native American community, whose point of reference for Native American Chicagoans is often limited to lifeless representations such as The Bowman and The Spearman statues at the entrance to Grant Park depicting unclothed Native American warriors on horseback, romanticized depictions such as Thomas Cole’s 1830 painting, “Distant View of Niagara Falls,” at the Art Institute, or the Blackhawks logo for the local National Hockey League team. Like these, most images of Native Americans in Chicago provide a narrow view relegating them to a “long-ago” past.