Читать книгу Lost Worlds of 1863. Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest онлайн
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The story of forced relocation and removal is a major theme in Raat’s Lost Worlds of 1863. Raat has expanded on the relational aspects of numerous activities and atrocities that coincided around the 1860s, a pivotal and momentous time in our collective histories. While the mural I painted “Fear of a Red Planet: Forced Removal and Relocation” looks into this time period a great deal, it is only a piece of the greater story.
Colonization and imperialism remain a painful memory, but an essential one for us to learn from if we can. Raat’s Lost Worlds of 1863 draws us closer to what is at stake between all cultures and people on this planet. By focusing on this period his work sheds new light on the complexities at play at a pivotal time in our not too-distant past.
Steven Jon Yazzie
Phoenix, Arizona
Preface
As enemies, the Mexicans were nothing in comparison with the White Eyes who came in from the east. White Eyes is not the exact meaning of our word for them; a more exact meaning would be Pale Eyes.