This talk explores the public art installation by Cheyenne/Arapaho modern artist Edgar Heap of Birds as a modern example of an aesthetic rendering of Native lives through text. Exhibited in the era directly after the elimination of University of Illinois' Indian mascot, the aluminum signs that made up the installation were vandalized and stolen. In his talk, Warrior discusses how these panels, in their memorialization of lives that were essentially ethnically cleansed from Illinois, present a modern Native voice critiquing the way the erasure and removal of those lives has been unmarked, a critique that some people would rather attack and steal than appreciate or even just ignore. A reception will follow the talk.