2010.54.2357

Like a Mountain
n.d.
27.00 in HIGH x 17.88 in WIDE
(68.58 cm HIGH x 45.40 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.2357

The bottom edge has: "474-1132. By Mail: $6.75, 3/$15.25; foreign shipping add $2. Wholesale rates available". Catalog of over 30 posters, calanders, and cards available for 50?. "Like a Mountain" ((c) 1976 by Naomi Littlebear, reprinted by permission) appears on Quiet Thunder album ($9 postpaid) from 373K S.E. Salmon, Portland, OR 97214. Artwork was cover of 1985 Can't Kill The Spirit Calander." with a Allied Printing union bug.

The poster has a photograph of a quilt, with various differently colored and patterned materials, that depicts a mountain landscape and rows of highly stylized figures with their arms raised in the air. The bottom of the poster has the text: "Like A Mountain / Naomi Littlebear / Nobody can push back an ocean. / It's gunna rise back up in waves. / And nobody can stop the wind from blowin', / Stop a mind from growin'. / Somebody may stop my voice from singing / But the song will live on and on. / You can't kill the spirit. / It's like a mountain, / Old and strong; it lives on and on. / Nobody can stop a woman from feelin' / That she has to rise up like the sun. / Somebody mat change the words we're sayin' / But the truth will live on and on. / You can't kill the spirit. / It's like a mountain, / Old and strong; it lives on and on.".
Bookmark and Share