George Longfish

George Chester Longfish[1] (born August 22, 1942) is a First Nations artist, professor, and museum director.

At this school, Longfish and his brother had to take care of farm animals, slaughter them, and many agrarian tasks.

Eventually, the school closed and Longfish and his brother moved back with their mother in Chicago.

[9] Longfish's art style consisted of stenciled text, pictures of indigenous people, and a variety of bright colors.

In 1972, the graduate program in American Indian Arts at the University of Montana was founded and managed by Longfish.

From 1973 until 2003, Longfish was a member of the faculty at the University of California, Davis' Native American Studies Department.

In addition, Longfish served as the director of the C. N. Gorman Museum at the University of California Davis,[10][11] from 1974 to 1996.

The background features bright colors with words such as truth, honor, earth, respect, below, honesty, lies, air, reincarnation, and fire.

In addition, the words on the painting, such as the upside-down water, also symbolize how Indigenous values have been flipped upside down due to colonization.

In addition, many phrases such as "Honoring women family children our histories memories", "broken treaties", "toxic waste dump", "genocide" and "disease" are written in the background.

Brilliantly colored arrows and zigzags flare outward, including ones cut from reflective metallic paper.