Bunky Echo Hawk a Native American Artist who uses modern events, objects, and technology throughout his paintings, photos, poems, and other forms of art to show the destruction of Native American culture caused by the “White Man”. Bunkys paintings often depicts Native Americans wearing judicial robes, gas mask, or traditional native clothing with altered symbols on their clothing to symbolize the spread of radiation, unfair treatment upon Natives, and the destruction of Native American Culture. Bunky Echo Hawk is a graduate of the Institute of Native American Arts he is known for being an artist, graphic designer, photographer, writer, and for being a non-profiting artist. What inspires the artist to prosper is his desire to spread the truth.
Throughout multiple paintings that Bunky has created Native Americans are shown doing the same task that their oppressor is capable of. For example, Bunky painted a Native American Rosie the Riveter holding a judicial gabble to symbolize that the time for equality is now, and that it is up to fellow Natives to help end the oppression caused upon the white man. The slogan
“We can do it” is the same from the original poster which would persuade women to enroll to help with the United States …show more content…
The American Flag being flown as the background of the image shows how the American culture destroyed and erased another cultures to only benefit their own. The destruction of culture is also the destruction of truth and in the modernized 21st century there is hardly any truth left around to help make change. Bunkys reasoning behind the image is to show how simple it is to erase a whole society with the press of a button simply because one desires to ignore their