war is real nasty business, in 1890 and in 2002. i find it rather depressing that we can't come up with an alternative, aren't we ever gonna grow up and stop being silly? oh. i forget. war is profitable for the mighty among us. nothing like a good war to build national pride and cure a recession. plus it looks real exciting on tv. sucks to be there though. anyway, your poster(?) is the bees knees. love it. truly.

this is really really really good - I feel it's like a movie poster (coming soon to a cinema near you maybe?!)

Very nice work. Excellent graphics skills. Great sentiment left to one of the bleeker moments in US history. I wish more people would take the time to learn exactly how bloody the path to nationhood was for this country. War does suck, take it from someone who knows. Fighting against an agressor is necessary if you hope to maintain your freedom, but fighting a "war" against a race you deem uncivilized, is a travesty. Inch by inch the Native Americans are gaining ground in their continuing fight. We should all be as civilized as they.

you were able to perfectly capture that scene in an image. A wonderful work :)

War is nasty, yes. But thats actually not the point here. This is not about war. Its about genocide. A genocide not committed by some totalitarian regime in the shadow of total war like the Nazi holocaust but by a democratic nation during some 150 years of mass killing and subsequent decades of more "subtle" forms of genocide afterwards such as boarding schools, mass sterilisations, systematic destruction of cultural and religious identity etc. The "extermination rate" was around 98% - larger than in the European holocaust. Yet America chooses to fabricate a glorious past where holocaust denial is part of the cultural mainstream and continues to dehumanise and ridiculoe its victims. Just recently I read in an "Lexicon of the West" that the 7th Cavalry only opened fire at the Hunkpapa Sioux at Wounded knee only when the natives they tried to disarm produced previously concealed Winchester rifles from under their blankets and aimed at the soldiers - indicating that the soldiers just acted in self-defence. "The tuth is that innocent indians who got killed were killed simply because they happened to be in the line of fire". Astonishing to see how "experts" manage to reconcile such sweeping assessment with testimonies by white men stating that the shooting continued for one hour, that the soldiers afterwards called out to indians still alive to come out and that they would be safe - only to butcher some little boys who trusted those words - and hunted down and killed women and children as far as six miles away from the actual battle ground. Great work, congratulations! Cheers, Sven

Important message & a composition that draws you in.

Read 'The Moon Of Popping Trees'....last December 26th, I stood on the hill at Wounded Knee. The Spirits are still strong....their voices live through those of us who honor our ancestors. Read 'Wounded Knee Massacre' in my gallery. Thank you for your honesty in this portrayal.