For Tamara Rain Bell, everything begins with tobacco and sacred medicines. Harvesting sacred plants, marinating them in water, mixing them with acrylic paint and sometimes small amounts of sage and peyote initiates her creative process. Ms. Bell�s artistic preoccupation is with addressing historical moments in Indigenous history.Fond of combining unconventional materials, subject matter and composition, Ms. Bell's repurposing of dollar bills is a recurrent element in her body of work. Here, the altered dollar bills�on which one would normally expect to see a profile of Abraham Lincoln or Andrew Jackson, instead they are reimagined with powerful portraits of proud indigenous people. This is done with the express intent of making a vivid political statement about the historical relationship that Lincoln, Jackson or Grant had with Indigenous people. Painting a proud Indigenous matriarch over their portraits underscores the societal impact and legacy of his policies, and serves