There Was Blood - Tribute to Native Americans
by Jeff Burgess
Title
There Was Blood - Tribute to Native Americans
Artist
Jeff Burgess
Medium
Photograph - Fusion Photography
Description
This is a fusion work with the background image taken of a statue of a Northwest native on a horse located in North Eastern Washington State near Lake Ossoyo. The bison skull image was taken in South Dakota. The image of the Native American was taken at the Solstice Parade in Seattle. There are numerous filters of other images superimposed on the work with addition and substraction techniques used to complete the project.
"South Dakota" comes from a Siouan Indian word? Dakota is the tribal name of the Dakota Sioux, meaning "friendly" or "allied." The Dakota Indians were not the only native people of this region, however. as there are Cheyenne, Crow, Sioux, Oglala, and some other tribes from this region. These were the plains natives.
There has been and continues to be mistreatment of the Plains Natives.
The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation was created by the United States in 1889 by breaking up the Great Sioux Reservation, following its victory over the Lakota in a series of wars in the 1870s. The reservation covers almost all of Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota. In addition, many small parcels of off-reservation trust land are located in Stanley, Haakon, and Meade counties.
The total land area is 4,266.987 sq mi (11,051.447 km�), making it the fourth-largest Indian reservation in land area in the United States. Its largest community is unincorporated North Eagle Butte, while adjacent Eagle Butte is its largest incorporated city. The Land Acts of 1909 and 1910, opened up the Cheyenne River Reservation to non-Native settlement. There is much more that can be said of the Native Peoples and their history in South Dakota....but if interested you can search the internet and read the many books published about these peoples. I present an artwork that reflects my feelings.
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June 26th, 2013
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Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Stephen Anderson
Beautiful and moving art on this work Jeff! Thank you for your kind comments on my images, I really appreciate them. I am enjoying looking at all the great work on your site.
Diamante Lavendar
Congratulations! Your wonderful art is being featured in Emotive Art Group! Please take a moment to visit the group and archive your work under the feature discussion link provided! ~Diamante
Murray Rudd
Congratulations on being featured in the FAA Group 'Promote Your Work Here and Get Noticed.' To ensure your feature remains available over time, post your featured image(s) in the Group's featured image archive (l/f and pinned, www.pinterest.ca/tendrelimages/01-promote-your-work-here-get-noticed/)
Nadine and Bob Johnston
.... Like the subject, technique, composition, and color... Today it was Published in the Internet publication ARTISTS NEWS.... Anyone can Just Highlight this link ---- http://bit.ly/RVPlpf - Use Ctl-C to copy and Ctl-V ---- to put it into the Browser Address, to view the publication. You can then, Tweet, FB, and email, etc a copy of the publication, to just anyone you feel would be interested. Happy Promoting! :-)
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