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." No copies in OCLC.