2010.54.6342

Object number:

2010.54.6342

Object name:

poster; work on paper

Title:

Chicano Mexicano Indigena: National Chicano Human Rights Council

Maker:

Paul Owns the Sabre

Date made:

1988

Material / Technique:

Screen print on paper

Dimensions:

H: 25.5 in, W: 19.25 in

Credit line:

All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.

Physical description:

poster

Content description:

Poster has a red and yellow background with black text. In the center is an image of a male figure running alongside a buffalo or bison. He is wearing a loincloth, has a circular piece in his left hand and a stick in his right hand. Poster has text on each side, starting from the top it reads, "Chicano Mexicano Indigena/ 1992 500 Years of Intercontinental Resistance/ Chicano Moratorium of San Francisco - Bay Area/ 1492 500 Anos de Resistencia Intercontinental." Below the central image the poster reads, "National Chicano Human Rights Council," with three images below. [Paul Owns the Sabre is a S.F. Bay Area artist, originally a Lakota from Cheyenne River, S.D. -LMC]

Concepts:

genocide; Human Rights; indigenous people; Mexican; Chicano

Places:

San Francisco

Persons:

Christopher Columbus

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