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Dempsey, Hugh A. (1963). "RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF BLACKFOOT QUILLWORK". Plains Anthropologist. 8 (19): 52–53. ISSN 0032-0447.

Dempsey analyzes the religious implications that women doing quillwork in the blackfoot tribe and processes of initiation that these women go through to become quillworkers. He tells of the necessary rituals and practices that women would go through before even beginning the quillwork. Dempsy is a historian in Canada who has dedicated much of his work towards the blackfoot confederacy. He is a chief curator and the Glenbow museum in Calgary giving him applicable authority on this topic.

Greci Green, A. (2015). Arapaho Women’s Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity. Ethnohistory, 62(2), 387–388. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2855617

Green gives a review of a book by Jeffery Anderson on how women in the Arapaho tribe use Quillwork as an artform and the ritualistic nature of women in Quillwork. This gives more insight into how women of other native tribes interact uniquely with Quillwork. This review had many citations and sources giving a wide array of information from academic sources.

LaPier, R. R. (2017). Storytakers: Ethnographers Visit the Blackfeet. In Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (pp. 99–118). University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1s475jg.12

LaPier tells the story of Holds Together Woman and how Quillwork was a mastery that she held sacred. Her use of Quillwork focused around designing blankets and explained how European contact transformed the tradition of Quillwork for women. Rosalyn R. LaPier is an indigenous woman with a PhD in Environmental History and intersects a lot of her work with stories from native groups.

Radus, D. (2018). Margaret Boyd’s Quillwork History. Early American Literature, 53(2), 513–537. https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2018.0047

Daniel Radus explains how Quillwork can give new insight into Native American material culture particularly how women are represented within it. He describes how Quills were used as methods of expression with their vibrant and diverse colors allowing many unique identities. He draws this information from a book that is embroidered with quills which further shows how Quillwork is used for expression in Native American society. Daniel Radus coordinates Native American Studies at SUNY Cortland giving him good authority on this topic.