Integrity guides the character of artists and their relationship to their cultural heritage over time, the human and more-than-human worlds around them, their traditional media, and the level of mastery they must reach in order to articulate both form and idea. Artists are keen observers, shaping new ideas into existing patterns as well as shaping new patterns from old ideas, keeping art fresh and alive through the tension between the known and unknown. They make the relationship between the old and new material accessible. Integrity was crucial to the process of fusing old with new in the transformation of Native cultural traditions in the twentieth century, when Indian people were the subject of tourism and were sentimentalized by non-Indians.

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