Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
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Edward Curtis, Winter Hunters, photograph from The North American Indian, published 1907-1930. Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis |
It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct. Geronimo (1829 - 1909), To President Grant from the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, after surrender, 1877. |
Oscar Berninghaus, Winter Move, oil on canvas, 1928. Courtesy the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts |
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