“Women even when they are not silenced, still have a very high price for being heard.” (Women & Power, Mary Beard)The lack of great women artists is not because of inherent incapacity; it is because of systemic institutional and social barriers. This erasure of women artists is not only historical, but it is also contemporary, and it is happening right under our noses. Raven Manygoats, writing for the Archives of Women Artists Research and Exhibitions (AWARE), notes that “most Native [American] art has been and continues to be made by women.” Predominantly “art produced by Native American women has been diminished. Women artists are much more than their relation to a man, and must be regarded as such. Instead, makeconscious actions to consume more women artist’s work.