First Nations Chiefs in Rushmore II

by Anastasia Savage Ealy

Title

First Nations Chiefs in Rushmore II

Artist

Anastasia Savage Ealy

Medium

Photograph - Print

Description

Painting/Photo Verbage 2014
Part of a three muses type of series that I am working on. I set up the photo shoot with my dearest Horsewomen/Daughters in the Spirit-buffalo Girls we are together in love and in The Global fellowship of the Horse Alliance. I got us in position and asked friend Alan Houle to take the shots so the photo credit goes to him. Then I had some fun enhancing my impression of the scene as I continue to use these 'sketches' for some up coming paintings! I will be working on more images so that larger prints and paintings will be available.

First Nations Chiefs in Rushmore
Rushmore was named "The Six Grandfathers" (Tunka'sila-He) by Lakota People!


The portraits are from Curtis's portraits which I have always loved as 'iconic' portraits of our First Nations North American peoples.
Back in 1992, back at Mountain Bird Ranch during one of my 'musing' sessions about my Native American heritage, and the "First Nations" genocide by the US government, with my then husband, now deceased Dan Fogelberg,(who had written Native American themed songs: "Spirit Trail" and "Don't Let The Sun Go Down," one of my favorites-Ironically, many years before during a Vision Quest Retreat in 1972, after returning from a Colorado trip- Love Affair Begun with the Rocky Mountains I selected my Native American spirit-name, Mountain Bird-Zintka'la-He, in Lakota-and all our 'Ya-ya-' sisterhood agreed that that was the right name for me. Strangely prophetic it was as I later was married with a Native American ceremony with the name Fogelberg-which means Mountain Bird, while living in the Rocky Mountains-Legal names may change but my Mountain Bird spirit name since I was 17, still hold true! ) I dreamed up a painting inspiration for this imagining the chiefs in the rocks instead of the white guys-presidents Some of my DNA is Lakota & some sort of Wisconsin Chippewa-Dad's side--So I have the rights to 'a piece of Rushmore--Ha!
After someone tasking me to do this image concept yesterday, I have been re-inspired to begin preliminary sketches. This is my first rendering-image sketch to take this concept further and later to the canvas. Digital art sketching fun helps me brainstorm without the toxic fumes & heavy metals of oil paints.
Here is a partial view of Rushmore & Black Hills to Lakota People:..... We connect Rushmore to the site of the 1876 Little Big Horn
battle between their ancestors and the U.S. Army
and to Wounded Knee, the place where in 1890 over 300,

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