MARILU LOPEZ-FRETTS

portraits

Timothy Long, conductor and pianist, Brooklyn, NY. Long is a member of the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town of the Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
  
  
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Jock Soto, one of the most celebrated male dancers with the New York City Ballet. Soto is half Navajo and half Puerto Rican. New York, NY.
   
     
  
   
Bert Blyleven, former Major League Baseball pitcher stands where his plaque will hang during his orientation visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Blyleven was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.
   
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Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), host and producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio, NYC. He is also a musician from Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota, storyteller, poet, university lecturer, scholar, essayist and human rights activist.
   
  
     
  
   
  
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Bas relief artist Michael Trivieri, Tupper Lake, New York.
   
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©OBSERVER-DISPATCH/Photo by Marilu Lopez Fretts