2010.54.1190

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America needs Indians
America needs Indians
1969
26 in HIGH x 20 in WIDE
(66.04 cm HIGH x 50.80 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.1190

Bottom right corner in pencil "Saichi 69"
Bottom left corner in pencil is, "For Lusa, Su(?) June."





 

Poster has a black background with a large pink circle in the center. In the circle is an outline of a native american chief's head. In green script around the circle is, "America Needs Indians."                              
 
In September of 1965 the Committee Theater in San Francisco began hosting a multimedia experience (slides, music, movies, native dancers) called "America Needs Indians" by Stewart Brand and Ken Kesey. Brand described the experience as "a peyote meeting without peyote." [LMC]
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