... America. Chrystos, in his poem "Today Was a Bad Day Like TB," makes fair accusations and feels like he is being extremely discriminated against. "Saw young blond hippie boy with a red stone pipe/ My eyes burned him up/ He smiled This is a Sioux pipe he said from his sports car/ Yes I hiss I"m wondering how you got it/ and the name is Lakota ... of people. He is disgusted that someone like the hippie and the man with a Haida design can be so ignorant to not even know that they are using and wearing sacred things. "Today was a day I wanted to beat up the smirking man wearing/ a pack with ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... created a large sculpture of the character "Thunderbird". Most of their art was useful as well, like the Kiowa cradleboard, they used it to hold the babies but it was also a sacred piece of art. Many pieces of art at the museum were characters from myths and handcrafted by Native American artists who had a real feel for the story. Unlike the British ... Pequot's art had meaning and use in the real world. The way of life of the Pequot tribe was much more ingenious than I thought possible. They used tools such as stone tipped spears and quartz choppers; their food was made from hickory nu...

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• Grade Level: High School

... American Art, Life and Spirituality is another statement from Anna Walters, " My dwellings are round, representing the universal circle of the nations" continuity. Our ancient dwellings are of earth water, stone, wood, bark, and hide. I construct them as my ancestors did before me, with regard for the four directions, the rising sun, landmarks, tribal migrations, or in relationship to immediate kin ... dismissed as mere embellishment. It answers a human need. As Plato saw, the search for the beautiful is only another aspect of the search for the true and the good." The Sacred Garden, Sp...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School