This July, we’re examining how artists in the Brooklyn Museum collection have dissected liberty, as

This July, we’re examining how artists in the Brooklyn Museum collection have dissected liberty, as a monument and as a concept, in the context of the United States.In the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation, Wendy Red Star brings to light a nationwide ignorance of Indigenous cultures in the United States. This image of Medicine Crow was originally taken by Charles Milton Bell during a historic meeting between the Crow delegation and the U.S. settler government, resulting in railroad expansion that encroached into Crow land rights. The portraits circulated, leaving the sitter and nation unidentified, helping to perpetuate an easily-appropriated, stereotyped view of Native Americans. By annotating reproductions of these images with details of the sitter’s achievements, regalia, and life experiences, Red Star reasserts and educates non-indigenous viewers on the individuality of Medicine Crow. She states, “I want people to realize that the images of Medicine Crow are more than just a handsome Native man. The images represent a human being, a reservation era chief, the forming of the Crow Indian reservation, the loss of Crow lands, the changing of a people, the resilience of a culture.”Posted by Gina VasquezWendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), born 1981). Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014. Inkjet print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., 2018.19.1b. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link

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