2010.54.10082

Death Wear A Mask
Late 20th - Early 21st Century
24.00 in HIGH x 18.00 in WIDE
(60.96 cm HIGH x 45.72 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.10082

Bottom right: "Art Work by . . . .Carol Wahpepah / Poem by . . . . . . . . .John Trudell.

Poster is printed on white paper. Poster is a poem about the environment. On the right side of the poster is a medicine wheel divided into four parts with a large feather hanging from it. The four sections have a rain cloud, a tree, a fish and a geometric design in them. On the left side of the poster is a column of black text that reads: "Death Wears A Mask / Death wears a mask / smiles and business suits / waving the scent of money / at the mask of hunger / shadowing poor peoples soul / death waers a mask / breeding the great lie / his story repeats / his genocide cycle / on the great spirits land / death wears a mask / over its radioactive face / in the new world order / new clear poisons / its industrial waste / death wears a mask / progress is its disease / trying to hide itself / on indigenous land / contaminate the tribes / and their seventh generations / death wears a mask / law and rules / and government enforces / trickery legitiming itself / trying to force the people / to accept the unacceptable / death wears a mask / inductrial mindsets / civilized hostility / class nobility the priviledged / cannibalizing human spirit / indifferent to human feeling / death wears a mask / bringing bad medicine / nuclear and toxic / trying to hide / among the tribes / not caring about the people / og their mother / of their children / death wears a mask / --John Trudell". At the bottom of the poster is blue text that reads: "Nuclear Freeze Future Campaign-Indigenous Lands".
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