Forty percent of Native American households on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Kyle, South Dakota, depend on home-based arts enterprises. (10) The arts heal the mental, physical, and moral injuries of war for military servicemembers and veterans, as well as aid in their reintegration into the community. (11) Arts and culture is an $878,000,000,000 industry in the U.S. (nonprofit, commercial, education). The nonprofit arts industry alone generates $166,300,000,000 in annual economic activity spending by organizations and their audience, which supports 4,600,000 jobs and generates $27,500,000,000 in government revenue. (12) The National Endowment for the Arts is the only arts funder in the United States, public or private, that provides access to the arts in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and territories of the United States. (13) Many of the most far-reaching victories for racial healing in the United States have been greatly enhanced by the involvement, support, and dedication of individuals from any and all racial groups. (14) At the same time, much of the progress toward racial healing and racial equity in the United States has been limited or reversed by our failure to address the root cause of racism, the belief in the myth of a hierarchy of human value based on superficial physical characteristics such as skin color and facial features. (15) Limited arts access is linked to economic and racial inequities as well as resource deprivation. (16) Arts organizations serving communities of color are, in general, much less financially secure and far smaller than their counterparts in White communities. The median budgets of the 20 largest arts organizations serving communities of color in a given discipline, such as dance, theater, or music, were more than 90 percent smaller than the budgets of the largest organizations in that discipline. (17) Children of color, who make up the overwhelming percentage of the children living in poverty in the United States, and other students with lower socioeconomic