Native Themes in New Deal-Era Murals

Murals

Native ways of life, culture, always distinct and unique to place and particular people, still resonate in the overarching themes . . .

Interpretation by academic method and significantly by the “outsider” perspective differs, sometimes in stark ways, from . . .

Encounter, the point of before and after, pervades much Native consciousness, and even more overwhelmingly, nearly all . . .

Trade drives nearly all exploration. It was an early occurrence of the contact period in the Americas. The crude bartering of . . .

Evangelization comforted many Native people, particularly after periods of warfare and of epidemics that caused drastic death . . .

Thirst for land, resources and opportunity drove a major human migration over the American continent. But the shout of . . .

American Indians, or American Indigenous – the Native nations of North America understood diplomacy and developed . . .

In the sciences, the expectation of extinction has plagued Native peoples. The expectation today is one of survival . . .

Some truth and way-too-much fiction blend American Indians in the popular imagination. Caricature and romance . . .

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