We Were Happy When He First Came. We First Thought He Came from the Light; But He Comes Like the Dusk of Evening Now...Charlot -- Flathead Chief [caption title]

Rooseveltown, N.Y. [i.e., Ithaca, N.Y.]: Akwesasne Notes [i.e., Glad Day Press], 1976. Very good.. Lithograph poster, 17.5 x 22.5 inches. Light even toning, mild edge wear. A rare poster issued by the Mohawk Nation as part of a series of works under the title, Akwesasne Notes, during the United States Bicentennial in 1976. The poster includes a large photographic portrait of Edward Curtis's "Flathead Chief" at top over a long quotation by him. The quotation laments the coming of the white man, which was at first a welcome development by Native Americans, but ends in misery: "His laws never gave us a blade, nor a tree, nor a duck, nor a grouse, nor a trout.... How often does he come? You know he comes as long as he lives, and takes more and more, and dirties what he leaves." We could not locate the poster in OCLC, though we doubt very seriously that it is unique. (Inventory #: 5960)