The Native American Holocaust is, in my opinion, one of the biggest disgraces to human history of all time. I feel strongly about how it is almost completely ignored in American culture and mocked by Americans today when really it should be noticed as an important example of human behavior at its worst. The slaughter of 100 million people, the biggest genocide known to man, was brought on by white settlers when "their" new land was occupied by natives. They fought wars with them, had their food source (buffalo) almost brought to extinction, were given new diseases by settlers, forced into their society and raped of their pride and culture. And now the remaining native Americans are a diluted people, a true example of how freedom can be taken completely and never found again.
This picture is meant to show emotion and feeling from this. I have tried to make it not convoluted so it focuses on the chief's face. That being said I wish that I had taken more time on the flag as it looks rushed, or moved the face to the center. I drew it in pencil without colour to make it both moody and sad.It is related to censorship because it is rarely recognised in American culture
today and sometimes even mocked, a form of subtle censoring
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