[Middle third of painting] Four large skulls in a row; below the skulls are five group portraits.

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1 Description of Living in the Storm Too Long [Top third of painting] Collage of portraits; most of them are of First Nations people. Several images of Pope John Paul II are featured; there are six tipis in a row. Collage is on top of newspaper print. [Middle third of painting] Four large skulls in a row; below the skulls are five group portraits. [Bottom third of painting] Background consists of newspaper articles and a black chalkboard with words written on lines, like in a classroom. Superimposed on the chalkboard is a row of four primitive drawings of human forms. At the bottom is a row composed of 12 black-and-white photos, many of people on a beach or beside water. Text Included in Living in the Storm Too Long Artists ready to paint again Self-rule by Pope Brief tour touches country Lubicon battle for their homes for 51 years Oka 1990 James Bay I72 II92 Old River Dam 91 Wounded Knee Riel Resistance The Disappearing Priesthood VISIONARY EXPLOITOR 1492 SHAMAN New star guide Dene, priest Northern natives have dug into By occupying a territory, man recreates ---e in Fort Simpson The ritual of transformation. If God s paradigm is followed, this transformation should be a positive one. (We only have to look at our environmental pollution to see whether or not the transformation of this land by the Europeans was positive.) So through our rituals of transformation, what is to become our world must first be created. When the first European colonists took possession of the Americas and began to

2 clear the land, they regarded the enterprise as a labour of transforming chaos, of trying to improve on the DIVINE ACT OF Creation. In other words, they were like artists repeating the primordial creative acts of gods organizing, deconstructing, reconstructing to give their world new structure, form and norms. FOR THE INDIgenous Indian this occupying of their territory by foreigners meant that they must hold unto what they had already consecrated, for what was not their world was yet not a world. What is to become our world must first be created and every creation has a paradigmatic modelthe creation by the GODS. A picture of a bare-chested man with AUSTIN tattooed across his chest A Viking settlement site Awaited Spirit sullied by politics Black death smallpox T.B BUT THE NATIVE AMERICANS SURVIVED Promise Sun Rain ears Black elk is sharply critical of missionary influence and clearly angry about their wrongfully imposed suppression: today I feel very sorry.i could just cry to see my people in a muddy water, dirty with the bad acts of the white people All of our religion of the old times that the early Indians had was left behind them as they fled and the water covered the region He answers the oft-repeated JESUIT dictum that traditional religion was devil worship with unintimidated directness: the whites think we have that themselves the power from the devil, but I ll say that they know this from experience. And he goes on to say that Christian had no message of love for INDIANS that Indians did not already practice. I fact I Lakota were overcome because they actually practiced their

3 religion and honoured their treaties, while the whites used both to implement betrayal. Black Elk pointedly invokes and the golden rule, the distinctive contribu tion of the religion preached by hypocrites. The first thing an Indian learns is to love each Other and that they should be relative-like to the Animals. I next thing is telling the truth (newspaper insertion: standing on a podium facing the Mackenzie River, Pope John Paul said he hopes Canada) Whatever they say, they stand by it. Here s where the INDIANS made their mistake. We should treat our fellowmen all alike The Great Spirit made men all alike. Therefore we made a mistake when we tried to get along with the whites. We tried to love them as we did ourselves. As a result of this we are now in misery. Now we see that the white race has done great wrong to Native people. Black Elk Black Elk is sharply critical of missionary influence and clearly angry about their wrongfully imposed suppression. I feel very sorry I could (illegible) to see my people in a dirty with of people.. All of our igio time that t early _nd t _ind them as er co ed t the oft-repeated that traditions Disappearing Priesthood An aging church Maimed Children SONG HEALS OUR HEARTS

4 OUR MINDS Regenerates our spirit CAPITALTISTS AND MARXISTS BELIEVE THAT MAN CAN RECREATE HIMSELF AND BECOME GOD BY SUBJUGATING NATURE, AND LIKE CHRISTIANS THEY ARE AGGRESSIVELY MISSIONARY MINDED. like those by Giotto and his followers, and appea and at times wooden, most striking figure in these years of readjust Florence was an outsider, Giovanni da 6-66). This Lombard artist wa_ Middle of the Tre Fri end, Apache Indi (illegible) students who just arrived at Barracks The Dene Tha provide a steady beat for native dancers. Christianity has traditionally had a mission to bring one religion to the world. This need for psychological validity confirmed by causing other people to surrender theirs, has softened into modern ecumenism. Human beings evolved by emphasinging [sic] likeness and minimizing their differences. A tribal religion on the other hand, is concentrated upon the physical and cultural survival of one people. The universalist unities order to transcend physical mortality. The tribal religions seek continuity in succeeding generations on the earth. The artist prays ritually by acquiring & the practicing his technique. Although each act of practice does not result in an inspired work the artist is not practicing because he/she is resigned to national failure because his rational practice will eventually bring predicable results beyond specific cause and effect paradigm. Self-government call queried PRAYING MAY RESULT IN A VISION LAW OF T SEVEN FIRES Pope pressed to recognize womens roles Friday, Oct 2/8_ John Paul II opens synod Laity must defend doctrine Laity topic as RC synod underway US told to share wealth POPE ENDS AMERICAN TOUR WITH PLEA Hollywood heeds Pope John Paul visit leaves debt in U.S.

5 Pope acknowledge_ Missionaries to the native people Church s hope 1558 officer Indians were overcome Each _t left with ople a pred n about what they would b h of these. er called fire. Each of these fire to a par period or eac_ time the teachings of the seven. Proph called t n fires. The fir_ fire tells us th Ojibway n en would, and follow f s red shell on would se_ as n_gest nt for the weak Anishi and the traditi l w_ys of the M_DEW_WIN religion # IN 1996 HAVE THINGS BECOME BETTER? gap 96