Saturday, March 17, 2012

This piece really stood out to me out of all the ones that we've gone over recently, just because it has something really interesting to say and the way the artist went about saying it was really cool and attention grabbing. I've always felt that Native Americans got a terrible deal from the U.S. government, did you know that 93% of all treaties between the Native Americans and the government were broken? That really got on my nerves when i learned that. But this piece displays the feelings of a Native American who just suffered through that raw deal they were unfortunately handed. So many things in this piece really interest me for example the red ex  over the man is really cool, not only does it represent the uranium mines that the reservations were built on top of but it also kind of seems to represent the person dying or just that no people should live there. I hadn't noticed this before but there is a bumper sticker that says made in the USA above the man as well as a serial number which just kind of shows the lack of sympathy the US had for the people that originally inhabited this country. The news paper kind of ties it all together in my opinion, it reminds me that nobody in the news really covered the unfair treatment of the Native Americans even though it was such a big tragedy.