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THE PROUD ONES
Original oil 40” x 40”
This aging couple, Hosteen Hwiisxini (Mr. White Horse) and wife, are descendants of Hoskinini’s band, which eluded Kit Carson’s round-up of the Navajo in 1864. Escaping confinement at the Bosque Redondo in New Mexico and the subsequent “Long Walk” back to tribal lands in 1868 - 1869, Hoskinini’s followers hid out in the rugged country between Monument Valley and Navajo Mountain in Utah. Their descendants still consider themselves the elite of the Navajo Nation - hence the title.
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Original oil 24” x 30”
A Minneconjou Sioux also known as Wasu Maza (Iron Hail), Dewey Beard was both a veteran of the Battle of the Little Big Horn (“Custer Last Stand’) in 1876 and a survivor of the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890. In the latter engagement, Beard lost his wife and infant child, father, mother, two brothers, and a sister. He adopted David Humphreys Miller as a son in 1948 and was present at Miller’s marriage to Janet Runyan in 1954. The last Indian survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, Beard died in November 1955 at age 97.
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