174 M Malotte, Jack Richard (Washoe/Shoshone, 1953–). Jack Richard Malotte grew up on the Walker River Reservation in Nevada. After attending the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1971 to 1974, where he earned a fine arts degree, Malotte became a US Forest Service firefighter. As a graphic artist and illustrator, he takes as his theme contemporary Indian politics. A pencil-and-ink lithographic titled Used and Abused, for example, protests the MX missile system , the Carter administration’s proposal to create a railroad system in Nevada carrying twenty-three hundred ready-to-fire nuclear weapons on flatbed boxcars, which also carried dummies in an effort to deceive Russian satellite-tracking systems, an idea defeated between 1981 and 1983 during President Reagan’s tenure in part as a result of the efforts of a coalition of Western Shoshone and Southern Paiute living on the Duckwater, Goshute, Ely, Yomba, and Moapa Reservations, respectively (Johnson 1986, 592). In yet another of Malotte’s thematically political drawings, a lithograph depicts a young Native American male standing in front of a television, videocassette recorder, and tape deck with a sweat lodge and images of fire, an eagle, and the moon in the background. The equally ironic title of this work is It Is Hard to Be Traditional When You Are Plugged In. Yet another lithograph tragically depicts an alcohol-related car wreck in which a young Native American male is pinned beneath a vehicle with two other Indians with a billboard sardonically advertising “Pow Wow Beer.” Among the numerous prizes won by Jack Malotte was first place in 1976 at the Intertribal Indian Ceremonial in Gallup, New Mexico. He also earned honors distinction at Tanner’s All-Indian Invitational Art Exhibition in Scottsdale, Arizona, six years later. Indeed, between 1983 and 1988, the Washoe and Shoshone artist had several one-man shows: for example, at the Charleston Heights Art Center in Las Vegas; the Clark-Price Gallery in Incline Village, Nevada; and the Sierra Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Malotte’s work was even featured in 1982 at the Kennedy Center’s “Night of the First Americans” in Washington, DC. Along with having also been shown from January 7 to February 18, 1983, at the C. N. Gorman Museum in Davis, California, and in 1989 and 1994 in San Francisco as part of “American Indian Contemporary Arts” exhibits, Jack Malotte’s works have been purchased by the Heard Museum of Native American Arts in Phoenix, Arizona (Johnson 1975). His lithograph It’s Hard to Be Traditional was exhibited at the National Museum of the American Indian at a show from May 31 to August 2, 1998, devoted to “Indian humor” and called Without Reservation.1 McMasters, Ellison, Jr. (Northern Paiute, 1932–2009). Ellison (Junior) McMasters began conducting “sweats” on the Walker River Reservation in 1968. Born on the Fallon Reservation, the Northern Paiute had contracted tuberculosis at age sixteen and spent the next three years at the Weimar Sanatorium in California. Several years later, McMasters became gravely ill: a lung collapsed while he was selling cords of m e e k e r m a s s a c r e 175 firewood. After suffering with respiratory ailments for years, he finally sought a traditional cure in 1994 by attending sweat lodge ceremonies on the Bishop Reservation in Inyo County, California (see Owens Valley Paiute). With his health significantly improved as a result of attending the sweat lodge run by Connie Denver, its Ute sweat lodge leader who in turn had been cured and recruited by Raymond Harris, the Northern Arapaho innovator of this neotraditional religion, McMasters decided to make a pilgrimage to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming to meet Harris. In an account related to this author in 1995, Junior said that Raymond Harris not only cured him, but enjoined McMasters to purify himself in order to carry the religion back home to Nevada. And so it was that while “fasting for my own pipe,” McMasters further related, on April 24, 1968, he received the requisite power that would allow him to construct his own sweat lodge (see Booha). Since that date and until his own passing, the grandson of “Singing McMasters,” a Northern Paiute shaman named for a Pyramid Lake Reservation Indian agent who Wheat (1967, 20) wrote was married to two daughters of a Northern Paiute named for another Indian agent, Wasson (see Forbes 1967, 75–80), conducted sweat lodge services, aided by his wife...