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Quincy Tahoma had a rather turbulent early life.  He was forced to leave his home and attend government schools where he was forbidden to speak his native language, the only language he knew. He was sent to the Santa Fe Indian School as a young man and mixed in with Pueblo and Plains Indian students with whom he was unfamiliar. 

Although Dorothy Dunn, the art teacher at Santa Fe Indian School, did not overly teach painting styles to students, she did encourage them, and she let them know her desires that they paint items from their culture, not from other cultures. Pueblo students painted pueblo subjects and Navajo were to paint Navajo subjects.

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