Cleveland Museum of Art has organized a powerful survey of art made by Native North Americans during the tumultuous resettlement years between 1820 and 1920. The 120 works on loan from the Fenimore Museum's renowned Thaw collection, mixed with 15 pieces from Cleveland's own collection, delivers on aesthetic impact, artistic merit and historical significance.

The artistry and beauty of these objects demonstrates the cultural survival of a people dealing with near-annihilation and resettlement. One example, "Beacon Lights" basket, woven in 1904-05 by Carson City, Nev., artist Louisa Keyser, aka Dat So La Lee, is decorated with flamelike patterns said to evoke signal fires used by Washoe Indians to communicate with one another.

The show will travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.