slifer response.

What draws you to this piece? What makes it compelling? What is your connection to this work? 

I chose the piece of the Andrew Jackson twenty dollar bill with the imposed stamp printed, "Great Heroes of Real Estate Indian Removal Act of 1830."  What really drew me to this piece was an everyday item was used (a $20) imprinted with a stamp that conveys a story to how that person on the bill changed America as we know it.  The compelling part that if not for Andrew Jackson's push of the Native Americans farther west, we perhaps could be living in a different world than we are today.  Perhaps the majority of Natives would not be living on reservations, but perhaps living out more of the lifestyle they once experienced.  For a church youth group trip I went to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, which is why I am very connected to this work.  I have seen first-hand the struggles of the Lakota people in terms of education and poverty.  They are still a very powerful people, but there lives have been vastly altered.