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QUATIE’S BLANKET
16 x 26" double matted and framed in gunmetal
$ 265
Quatie’s Blanket is an addition
of 250 with 25 artist proofs.
During the winter of 1838-39 the entire Cherokee Nation was removed from their homeland in
the Southeastern United States and marched overland to Indian Territory. Everyone suffered
the hardships along what people refer to today as the Trail of Tears. Chief John Ross led
the last detachment made up of many elderly people and children. Among the people lost was
the Chief’s beloved wife Quatie. Though already suffering she gave up the only
blanket shielding her from the elements. The compassion Quatie showed a sick child cost
her, her life.
The quote in the painting is from Pvt. Burnett’s
letters home to his wife. He stood guard over Quatie the night she died. " Chief Ross
led in prayer and when the bugle sounded and the wagons started rolling, many of the
children waved their little hands goodbye to their mountain homes."
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War Woman
Author: Robert J. Conley
The early history of the encounter between the Real People, or Cherokee, and
Western Europeans is vividly imagined in this latest saga by a prolific
Cherokee writer. Using a few isolated but historically supported
discoveries of the use of guns by Cherokees during the early European-American
invasion, the ruins of an old Spanish gold mine in Cherokee country, the
building of a Cherokee town on the site of an abandoned village near
Jamestown, VAAthe author creates a fast-moving novel of how these things
might have happened. It is told from the view point of War Woman, a name
Whirlwind achieves through her extraordinary skills and abilities during
each of the various events. This history parallels Whirlwind/War Woman's
development from girlhood to maturity and eventually death. Cherokee
beliefs, traditions, and way of life are interwoven throughout the story as
the Real People come face to face with the beliefs, traditions, and customs
of the invading peoples. This is an excellent novel that features strong
female protagonists; there are also love interests and fierce battle scenes.
It presents a Native American viewpoint of early American history and offers
alternative explanations for some of the archaeological discoveries still
not explained completely.
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