Sharon HoogstratenPhotographer Sharon Hoogstraten spent a decade portraying contemporary Potawatomis in regalia and as an unexpected dividend, discovered her own roots. A Michigan native, she traveled to Chicago for graduate study and then stayed having no cluethat she was literally walking in the footsteps of her Potawatomi ancestors. Beginning with Citizen Potawatomi Nation, her home reservation in Shawnee, Oklahoma, she called on all nine nations of the scattered Potawatomi Tribe--traveling to Michigan, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Kansas and producing photographic proof that in this new millennium "WE ARE STILL HERE."

Hoogstraten previously published Green City Market: A Song of Thanks, a pictorial retrospective of the groundbreaking farmers market that boosted Chicago's culinary reputation as a nationally acclaimed food destination. Sharon resides in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. With her husband, Robert Gray, they raised two fine young men and rescued a 1908 landmark house along the historic boulevards known as Chicago's Emerald Necklace.
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