Inktober 2025 - "Lesson" Day 29

"An Indian who is as bad as the white men could not live in our nation; he would be put to death and eaten up by the wolves. The white men are bad schoolmasters; they carry false books, and deal in false actions; they smile in the face of the poor Indian to cheat him; they shake them by the hand to gain their confidence, to make them drunk, to deceive them, and ruin our wives.

We told them to leave us alone, and keep away from us; they followed on, and beset our paths, and they coiled themselves among us, like the snake. They poisoned us by their touch. We were not safe. We lived in danger. We were becoming like them, hypocrites and liars, adulterous lazy drones, all talkers and no workers....

The white men do not scalp the head; but they do worse — they poison the heart." – Chief Black Hawk

8" x 10" printed on 225gsm 100% cotton, acid-free, museum quality paper with archival pigmented ink. Each piece is hand-signed.

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