Native American ledger art — drawings made on old financial ledgers or deeds — traces its roots to the mid-1870s, when a group of Southern Plains warriors were held at Fort Marion in Florida.

Mountain Chief by Terrance Guardipee (Blackfeet), 2012, antique ... Native Americans into the mainstream culture, and in many cases imprisoning the Plains Indians, the crafting of “ledger art ...

Ledger art is a Native American art medium developed ... are characterized by pencil portraits of Native Americans, usually taken from antique photographs but sometimes photographs Pappan has ...

Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains, which opened this month at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American ... Ledger art might feel like a reminder of colonialism and the loss of Native ...

When asked what he hopes people will come away with upon seeing the collaborative show, Last Gun said, “I hope people can learn more about ledger art and how it is related to Native American art.

UCROSS, Wyo. - The pictorial art of the last generation of Plains Indian warriors, created in the final decades of the 19th century, is known as "ledger drawing." The Ucross Foundation Art Gallery ...

Completed on antique ledger paper, the drawing is an example of ledger art, a pictorial tradition developed by Native people of the American Great Plains during the late 19th and early 20th ...

The Lake Wales Depot Museum is showing off Florida's history with its annual Native American art exhibit, featuring art and artifacts from Florida and around the United States. The museum's newest ...

It’s a way to challenge Native American erasure ... The show includes paintings, mixed-media and ledger art, among other art forms. Ledger art a traditional practice where Native artists ...

It's where the contemporary artist and designer creates ledger ... Native American artists whose work is being celebrated in a "New Artist Showcase" Friday at Gallery 103 and 3 Rivers Art Gallery ...