Member file: Amanda M. Crowe, woodcarver

These documents pertain to the life and work of Cherokee woodcarver, sculptor, and teacher, Amanda Crowe. Included are: her resume done in 1961, a press release produced by the Guild, in the 1970s or 1980s; a transcript of an interview done by Edward Dupuy and Clifford Hotchkiss in 1965; a biography written in the mid-1980s; a 1982 commendation from the Cherokee Historical Association; and a press release by the Department of the Interior dated 1970. Crowe was born in Cherokee, North Carolina in 1922, she learned woodcarving from renowned Cherokee woodcarver Goingback Chiltoskey, she received formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago, and inspite of her success as sculptor, she chose to return to Cherokee and taught carving at the Cherokee High School for many years