Fort Supply
Artist
Edgar Heap of Birds
(Native American, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations, born 1954)
Date2017
Medium24 monotypes on deckled and cut BFK RIVES paper
Dimensionsoverall: 167.6 × 304.8 cm (66 × 120 in.)
each sheet: 59.5 × 38.2 cm (23 7/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
each sheet: 59.5 × 38.2 cm (23 7/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineMuseum Purchase through the Eliza S. Paine Fund, the Chapin Riley Fund and the Ruth and Loring Holmes Dodd Fund
Object number2020.18
Description24 abutting monotypesLabel TextHeap of Birds describes himself as an interventionist historian seeking to reinsert the Native American record into a history scripted by Anglo-Americans and Europeans. His short phrases confront the trauma sustained by Native cultures at the hands of colonizers. Fort Supply refers to the November 27, 1868 massacre of a peaceful Cheyenne settlement on the banks of the Washita River in Oklahoma. Despite a treaty that designated the Washita River as Native American land, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and the 7th Calvary, under the authority of United States General Ulysses S. Grant, conceived of a winter campaign to stealthily eradicate the nearby tribes. His references to modern-day drone strikes implicate the US Government in ongoing state-sanctioned violence against unarmed civilian populations across the world.
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