... that has left lasting impressions in the Western and Native American art world. An established contemporary artist, Scholder has utilized several contemporary and surrealistic techniques to exhibit his observations of the modern American Indian. In order to properly analyze Mad Indian No. 3 one must understand the history of the Native American and his long battle against the stereotypes that is a constant road block ... American putting their perspective into the forefront, instead of the one we've grown to believe is right. Mad Indian No. 3 is a portrait of a Native American man with ...

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... tribes and even a huge abandonment of original homelands in order to escape these tragic wars and slavery. The majority of these violent Indian wars occurred in the southern United States. The increase of the gun and slave trade forced the other tribes to either participate or refuse ... point to maintain their active involvement in the slave trade, they also became more economically involved and began to drown in significant debts. The Indian slave trade began to negatively affect the social aspects of many of these tribes, particularly when gender roles in their communities were taken ...

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... throughout their journey. They are typically portrayed as challenging encounters for the travelers to overcome. History books, the western genre of fiction, and Hollywood movies all reinforced the stereotypes of Indian massacres, raids, abductions, thieves, and vagabonds. Occasionally in these narratives, a lone Native American would travel with the hero as a faithful companion. In general, however, Native Americans are ... many hazards emigrants had to overcome along their travels. The possibilities of massacres and abductions loomed over the wagon trains when in reality only 362 emigr...

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... from sea to shining sea. Yet, whose labor were they living off of freely, exploiting and breeding them as if they were mere animals (and depicted as such in various art and literature)? The slaves they carried across the Atlantic ocean. And what of the Manifest Destiny? What right did we have to take that land, when it was owned by ... mere cattle or sheep, or else you would end up dead), or try to do what Roosevelt wanted everyone to do:  assimilate and Americanize. Zitkala Ša in Impressions of an Indian Childhood uses the narrative voice of a young girl (her) to explain what happene...

• Word Count: 1871
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