ABOUT WE THE PEOPLE: Our country is turning 250 this year. Every week through July 4, 13 ON YOUR SIDE is celebrating the milestone by bringing you stories of people from around West Michigan whose experiences and perspectives weave together to tell the story of our community—and our country.
ATHENS, Mich. – In the darkness of a basement on Pine Creek Indian Reservation, something extraordinary is happening.
A single bulb burns overhead. A brush coated in orange moves across a large canvas. And Nickole Keith, who is an artist, activist, and tribe member, is doing what she was born to do.
“I like bright colors,” she says, barely looking up from her canvas…