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If settler colonialism is a structure, what about the structures that celebrate settler colonialism? Emily C. Burns, ‘Political Contestation in Cyrus Dallin’s American Indian Monuments’, Archives of American Art Journal, 57, 1, 2018, pp. 4-21

18Apr18

Abstract: Around the turn of the twentieth century, the sculptor Cyrus Dallin made several American Indian equestrian monuments. Critics often construed these sculptures as a connected series that charted the temporal progression of a defeated and dying race. But primary sources reveal an important counternarrative: the artist’s criticism of US treatment of native communities during western expansion. This essay argues that Dallin’s equestrian sculptures can be read as equivocal monuments that challenge dominant narratives of US history.


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