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Jeri Redcorn is still making her mark 30 years after she revived her tribe s pottery traditions Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman © The Oklahoman File Caddo potter Jeri Redcorn is seen in her Norman home in 2009. Thirty years after she singlehandedly revived her tribe s lost pottery traditions, Caddo artist Jereldine Jeri Redcorn is still making her mark. The Oklahoma ceramics artist, 81, is creating a large-scale work for the interior of the long-awaited First Americans Museum, due to open Sept. 18 southeast of the Interstate-35/40 interchange near downtown Oklahoma City.  Conceived in the 1990s as the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, the $175 million, 175,000-square-foot museum is designed to Smithsonian Institution standards to serve as a repository for the history, stories and traditions of the tribal nations headquartered in Oklahoma. 

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