
Winter Count 1948, 2003 $7,750
Rawhide, natural pigment, poplar frame, digital images
77” by 49” by 6”
"I
do not agree that the dog in the manger has the final right to
the manger, even though he may have lain there a very long time.
I do not admit that right. I do not admit that a great wrong has
been done to the Red Indians of America or the Black people of
Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these
people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race,
a more world-wise race has taken
their place." -Winston Churchill justifying the racist ethnic
cleansing of the Palestinians in the above quotation.
(During the
british colonial occupation of palestine Churchill testified at
the hight of the British Colonial
offensive against the Palestinians to the Peel Commission of Inquiry
in 1937. Churchill justified the military action on the grounds
of the racial superiority of the Jews to Arabs.)
The individual
images (from the UN) are of the expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians
from their native lands at Israeli gun point (Al Nakba).