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Transcript: Ralph Forquera

No representation of Native culture in art of Seattle

[Forquera:]
It's one of the things that is most remarkable to me and still remains remarkable to me is a city that’s named after a chief, a Native chief, if you go around this town there is very little visual representation of Native culture here, there’s nothing down on the waterfront that really depicts the Northwest or Native people, and certainly there’s not a lot of representation of Native people or symbolism of the Native populations here.