2010.54.10009

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"Why should an Indian woman have to bleach her hair to be accepted?"
Circa 1975
22.69 in HIGH x 17.75 in WIDE
(57.63 cm HIGH x 45.08 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.10009

In the bottom left corner is a union label for International Workers of the World I.U. 450, Glad Day Press. Along the bottom left is "Photograph courtesy of Alberta Provincial Archives. Our Grandmother shown here is Betty Hunter, of the Stoney Nation of Southern Alberta, taken about 1900." Along the bottom right is "This poster is one of a series. They are available on heavy paper from Akwesasne Notes, Mohawk Nation via Rooseveltown, N.Y."





Poster consists of brown print on yellow paper. Full page image depicts an elderly woman, Betty Hunter of the Stoney Nation of Southern Alberta, in a dress with multiple necklaces, wearing a bandanna around her forehead and smoking a pipe. Text in upper left corner reads ""Why should an Indian woman have to bleach her hair to be accepted?" / Buffy Ste Marie."

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