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“In 'Prospectors Among the
Blackfeet,' Blackfeet warriors find evidence of intrusion by
white men: a prospector’s gold pan and other debris carelessly
left behind in a shallow stream,” says the artist. “The
Blackfeet were among the most implacable in their enmity toward
white trespassers, first the beaver trappers and later the prospectors.
And for good reason. Blackfeet had only to look at their neighbors,
the Sioux and Cheyenne, where the discovery of gold in the treaty-protected
Black Hills led to the final, crushing military campaigns against
them.” |