Native American portrait.

This painting was created in 1890 and details how the Native Indians were treated by the Americans and 'cowboys.'

The scenery shows the rural state of West America and how vast the land was and undeveloped it was. This demonstrates how they exiled the Native Indians to areas of land that weren't sufficient enough in rich soils for themselves.

Also in the scenery is a wooden wagon wheel which could mean that the native Americans were travelling in a wagon and it was destroyed by the cowboys. This is also emphasised by the smashed bottles, broken boxes and their personal belongings laid out on the ground.

The cowboy on the left hand side if pointing at the Native Indians which could be either seen as he is mocking them by pointing and laughing as they have nothing, or debating what to do with them. One Indian does have a large feathered head piece of which could mean he is the chief, which is more shocking that the chief of a village would be removed from his settlement. He is also surrounded by children, which shows the brutality of how they were treated, whether men, women or children.

In the background there seems to be a buffalo skull, this is properly used as a metaphor of how the Americans killed so many Buffalo's for their own selves and again taking from the Native Indians which once was theirs and how they killed so many Native Indians for no valid reason.

The trail of wagons through the valley is heading towards the west, which demonstrates how they moved across the land to expand. Also as they have wagons, cows and personal possessions this shows how much more they did have than the Native Americans, as they are left there with one horse between them, no wagon and most possessions broken from a possible attack.