... Who Owns History?

Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Inunaina / Tsistsistas / American, born 1954
Inunaina (Arapaho)
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Northern Plains
Plains

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1992

Metal sign

Overall: 24 1/8 × 17 5/16 in. (61.2 × 43.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Monroe A. Denton Jr., Class of 1968

© Edgar Heap of Birds

MIS.2003.25.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Mixed Media

Research Area

Native American

Mixed Media

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Inscriptions

Sticker at top of sign: THESE WORDS COME FROM A 1930 HISTORIC / PLAQUE NEAR THE FORT PITT MUSEUM IN / POINT STATE PARK. Sign: FORT PITT / VICTORY / DESTINY / ANGLO SAXON / SUPREMACY / WHO OWNS / HISTORY?

Course History

SART 17, Collage, Esme Thompson, Fall 2012

NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013

ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013

SART 17, Collage: Bridging the Gap, Esme Thompson, Fall 2013

NAS 35, ENGL 32.01, Native American Literature, Melanie Benson Taylor, Spring 2019

NAS 32.01, ENGL 53.02, Indian Killers: Murder and Mystery, Melanie Benson Taylor, Spring 2019

NAS 30.19, Indigistory, Gordon Henry, Fall 2019

NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020

Exhibition History

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.

New Humanisms, Art History 5, Winter 2020, Mary Coffey, Associate Professor of Art History, Chad Elias, Assistant Professor of Art History, Teaching Exhibition, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, January 18, 2020 – March 15, 2020.

Publication History

George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Hightlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. p. 55 and p. 170, no. 133.

Provenance

Monroe A. Denton, Jr., Brooklyn, New York; given to present collection, 2003.

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