Subliminal Crossing – To understand the essence of this artwork you must be aware that African American and American Indian relations encompass a complex history of interaction, much cooperation, and conflicts between two (2) distinct racial and cultural groups in the United States. With cultural exchanges influencing music, art and many social developments they have been able to endure together.
In the 18th century, many Native American women married freed or runaway African men due to a decrease in the population of men in Native American villages. Records show that many Native American women bought African men but, unknown to the European sellers, those women freed and married these men into their tribe. When African men married or had children by a Native American woman, all their children were born free, because the mother was free.
Native Americans, during the transitional period of Africans becoming the primary race enslaved, were enslaved at the same time and shared a common experience of enslavement. They worked together, lived together in communal quarters, produced collective recipes for food, shared herbal remedies, myths and legends, and in the end they intermarried. Because of immense shortages of men due to warfare, many tribes encouraged marriage between the two groups, to create stronger, much healthier children from the unions. Europeans considered both races inferior and made efforts to make both Native Americans and Africans enemies. Native Americans were rewarded if they returned escaped slaves, and African Americans were rewarded for fighting in the late 19th-century Indian Wars. Although the White Man committed unspeakable atrocities to both the Red Man and Black Man they still endured. With this lead Black Indian Woman crossing over her "beauty in detail" will be, when she receive a new headband with the same tribal symbolism as her new soon to be tribal sisters that are trailing, after she marries her man.
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Original 24 x 30 Mixed Media on Special Substrate - 2024
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