The Chickasaw Arts Academy: Teaching Future Weavers and Designers

Margaret Roach Wheeler

Chickasaw weaver and clothing designer Margaret Roach Wheeler explains how her time as a high school teacher prepared her to teach future weavers and designers at the Chickasaw Arts Academy.

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