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287:. Klee is also a champion Fancy War dancer, artist, silversmith, filmmaker, and model. He won numerous awards for his art at the Heard Museum in Phoenix and was the first student to win Best Show at the Navajo art show at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1991. He formed the
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