2010.54.9958

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Standing Bear Ma-Chu-Nah-Zha
Standing Bear Ma-Chu-Nah-Zha
Late 20th - Early 21st Century
23.88 in HIGH x 16.00 in WIDE
(60.64 cm HIGH x 40.64 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.9958

"Photo courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society" printed below image at lower left and above a logo for the American Indian Center of Omaha Inc. "(c) Design by M. Engstrom & G. Flanagan" printed below the image at lower right and above a portrait logo for Standing Bear.





Poster is printed with brown ink on tan mottled paper. A photograph of a North American Indian holding an ax fills the majority of the page. Text that appears over the image just below center on the page reads, "My hand is not the color / of yours, but if I pierce / it, I shall feel pain. / If you pierce your hand, / you also feel pain. / The blood that will flow / from mine will be of / the same color as yours. / I am a man. / The same God made us both." "Standing Bear / Ma-Chu-Nah-Zha" is printed below the image at bottom center.
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