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2024 post:
Throughout 2024, we're looking back at the 100 year history of art at the Mulvane. This 2012 work by Kiowa/Comanche artist John Hitchcock references the 1874 Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, in which US troops destroyed a large Native encampment, forcing the inhabitants onto reservations. The troops seized about 1400 ponies, keeping 340 for their own uses and killing the rest. Hitchcock remarked that the horse pictured in this print is a survivor of the battle– "It’s the spirit of the people."