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Mural honors resilience, spirit and future of Salt River Pima-Maricopa people
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Cronkite News
PHOENIX, Arizona — Downtown is home to thousands of people, including one new resident who’s 45 feet tall and very hard to miss.
The radiant teen resides on the south side of the Monroe Building and is the result of three and a half weeks of creating by artists Miles “El Mac” MacGregor and Thomas “Breeze” Marcus.
But don’t be fooled, the muralists say, the teen is much more than a pretty face. The black-and-white mural is a portrait of a real girl from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
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Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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