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Ricardo Favela
born Kingsburg, California 1944;
died Visalia, California 2007
Centennial Means 500 Years of Genocide!
1976
screenprint on paper
In this print, created during the Bicentennial, Favela used text and image to link the past and present. He calls for the release of Russell Redner and Kenneth Loudhawk, American Indian Movement activists arrested in 1973 after their participation in a staged protest at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Protesters demanded a review of Indian treaties and an investigation into the treatment of Native Americans in the United States. By juxtaposing a series of Lakota war shields with a Native figure whose face is partially obscured by a frayed U.S. flag, and adding the words 500 years and genocide, Favela conjures a long history of violent clashes between the United States and Indian nations.
Museum purchase through the Frank Ribelin Endowment, 2020.6.1 |