M ICHAEL B AKER C ORPORATION Investor Relations Update June 12, 2002 Engineering & Energy.
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Michael Cruz
Cayuga Nation (Six Nations), Turtle clan
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• Fourth child out of six brothers and sisters• Father: Spanish• Mother: Native American from the Six Nations
reservation, Cayuga, Turtle clan.• Grew up in a bad part of upstate New York, with
drugs and weekly shootings.• Used art and hard work to stay out of trouble• Now lives in a suburban neighborhood in
Spencerport N.Y.• tried everything in art there is, from soap stone
carvings to watercolor, pencil, ink, clay, air brush, acrylics, oils and pastels.
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• He experienced his roots spiritually when he visited a powwow called Gathering of Nations
• It was at that powwow where he met original Navajo code talkers and he began painting.
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Mother Earth and Father Sky
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Sitting Bull
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Deer Healer
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Eagle Dancer
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Project Ideas
• Students think about their surroundings and what has influenced them and their families and make a painting about that.
• Students think about what their people have brought to America and paint that…