This drawing aims to represent Bessie’s sense and feelings of captivity both during her life and after her death in the “Lost Sister” as a result of the Western genre’s condescension towards indigenous cultures. Her state of existence while being bound by handcuffs in the left drawing symbolizes her feelings of being imprisoned as a result of the forced acculturation done to her by her biological white family. This is in contrast to the drawing on the right, where it shows her state of lifelessness and her now unbound handcuffs that deteriorated from corrosion, representing the bittersweet…