Eugene artist Yvonne Stubbs chronicles discovering Indigenous heritage along with her Black family line with Bloodlines: A Personal Journey Through Art, Memory and Heritage . The collection of works — including paintings, ceramics, collage, fiber arts and mixed media — hangs at the Eugene City Hall Gallery through February. Stubbs tells Eugene Weekly she had no idea she had Indigenous ancestry in her family when she began the process, tracing parts of her family back to Oklahoma and the Freedmen of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. Freedmen were descendants of enslaved African Americans emancipated after the Civil War, some of whom had Indigenous ancestry. In the 1860s, treaties promised freedmen full citizenship within the Five Tribes — the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek/Musco

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