Below is one of the first Native American Chiefs I engraved. This is Chief Red Cloud. He is A4 in size and was completed on 2mm Plexiglass.
One of the nicest compliments I received came from a lady in the USA when she asked: "Do all you Native Americans look as though they are staring back at you through a mirror?"
I thought this was a nice compliment to the work being carried out. Needless to say, my Native American engravings don't usually last very long - they get snapped up very quickly, indeed - perhaps a testimony to my skill in recreating them with detail.
(Resides In California)
Below are another two portraits that I did of this famous Indian Chief, of which only 1 at the very bottom is still available
(Resides In Lichfield, Staffordshire, UK)
(all three completed on Plexiglass)
The United States named the war after Red Cloud, a prominent Oglala Lakota chief who led his band to oppose the U.S. military in the area. He was allied with the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho bands. With peace achieved under the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, the Cheyenne and Lakota achieved victory in this war. They gained recognized control of the Powder River country for the next eight years.
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Chief Wolf Robe (A4 Glass - Donated - Resides in Yorkshire, UK)
Chief Wolf Robe is a Southern Cheyenne. It is believed his profile was used on the Indian Head Nickel, although other Indians were chosen, Wolf Robe is probably the most likely candidate because of the striking resemblance.
In 1864 a group of peaceful Cheyenne were massacred at Sand Creek, Colorado. In 1876 the Cheyenne joined the Sioux and defeated Col George Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In 1877 the Cheyenne surrendered and were relocated to Indian Territory which today is known as Oklahoma.
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Chief Joseph - (Resides in Lichfield, Staffs, UK
A4 Plexiglass)
Chief Joseph, known by his people as In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Thunder coming up over the land from the water), was best known for his resistance to the U.S. Government's attempts to force his tribe onto reservations. The Nez Perce were a peaceful nation spread from Idaho to Northern Washington. The tribe had maintained good relations with the whites after the Lewis and Clark expedition. Joseph spent much of his early childhood at a mission maintained by Christian missionaries.
In 1855 Chief Joseph's father, Old Joseph, signed a treaty with the U.S. that allowed his people to retain much of their traditional lands. In 1863 another treaty was created that severely reduced the amount of land, but Old Joseph maintained that this second treaty was never agreed to by his people.
A showdown over the second "non-treaty" came after Chief Joseph assumed his role as Chief in 1877.
After months of fighting and forced marches, many of the Nez Perce were sent to a reservation in what is now Oklahoma, where many died from malaria and starvation.
Chief Joseph tried every possible appeal to the federal authorities to return the Nez Perce to the land of their ancestors. In 1885, he was sent along with many of his band to a reservation in Washington where, according to the reservation doctor, he later died of a broken heart.
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Chief Spotted Elk (Resides in Sutton, UK - A4 Plexiglass)
Spotted Elk (Unpan Glešká, sometimes spelled as OH-PONG-GE-LE-SKAH, or Hupah Glešká), (1826 - December 29, 1890), was the name of a chief of the MiniconjouLakota Sioux. He was a son of chief One Horn (Miniconjou) and became a chief upon the death of his father. He was a highly renowned chief with skills in war and negotiations. He was given the derogatory name of Big Foot or Sitȟáŋka by an American soldier at Fort Bennett, although this is not to be confused with the Oglala Bigfoot who was known Ste Si Tanka or Chetan keah. In 1890 he was killed in South Dakota, along with at least 150 other members of his tribe, by the United States Army in what came to be known as the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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"The 2012 Native American Dollar"
When I saw this I just had to recreate it. It is engraved on A4 plexiglass in landscape and coloured in silver leaf wax.
(It resides in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.)
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(A4 sized, 2mm Glass, finished in Silver Leaf Wax)
SITTING BULL (1837—1890), was a beloved medicine man and chief of the Sioux Indian Tribe. Chief Sitting Bull was born in about 1837 in what is now North Dakota. He was the son of Sioux chief Jumping Bull. He gained significant influence among the restless and dissatisfied young Indians. During the Civil War he orchestrated raids on white settlers in Iowa and Minnesota. Though he had agreed to peace in 1866, from 1869 to 1876 he frequently attacked whites that had encroached on the traditional territories of the Sioux Nation. His refusal to return to the reservation in 1876 led to the campaign in which General George Armstrong Custer, and his 7th Cavalry, were wiped out at the Battle of Little Big Horn, also knows as "Custer's Last Stand". Fearing retribution for his participation in the stunning victory of the Sioux Nation, and Allied Indian tribes, Sitting Bull with a large band moved into Canada. He returned to the US in 1881, and after 1883 lived at the Standing Rock Agency. In 1889 a treaty was made reducing Sioux territory. Difficulties in the working of this, and religious excitement in connection with the Ghost Dance craze, led to an outbreak in 1890. Rumors of a coming Indian Messiah who would defeat the whites, and Indian dissatisfaction at the disposition of their territory, created such great turmoil in 1889—1890 that the US Army decided to arrest Sitting Bull as a precaution. Indian Affairs officials became concerned that would give support to the movement and decided to arrest him. Attempting to preempt the army, 43 Indian police tried to arrest him at his home on December 15, 1890, at the Standing Rock Agency. Sitting Bull did not try to resist, but some of his followers came to his support. As Sitting Bull came out of his house, a large group of supporters had assembled. One of the men, Catch the Bear, fired his gun. Sitting Bull was then shot by the police, killing him.
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General George Armstrong Custer
(A4, 2mm Glass, Single-Sided Engraving, Finished In Pewter Wax)
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand and, by the Indians involved, as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho people against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in eastern Montana Territory, was the most famous action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho, led by several major war leaders, including Crazy Horse and Gall, inspired by the visions of Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake). The U.S. Seventh Cavalry, including the Custer Battalion, a force of 700 men led by George Armstrong Custer, suffered a severe defeat. Five of the Seventh's companies were annihilated; Custer was killed, as were two of his brothers, a nephew, and a brother-in-law. Total U.S. deaths were 268, including scouts, and 55 were wounded.
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Geronimo
(A4 Glass, 2mm, finished in silver leaf wax)
Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé kòjàː"one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Bedonkohe Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. "Geronimo" was the name given to him during a battle with Mexican soldiers. His Chiricahua name is often rendered as Goyathlay or Goyahkla in English.
After an attack by a company of Mexican soldiers killed his mother, wife and three children in 1858, Geronimo joined revenge attacks on the Mexicans. During his career as a war chief, he was notorious for consistently urging raids upon Mexican Provinces and their towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas.
In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to U.S. authorities after a lengthy pursuit. As a prisoner of war in old age he became a celebrity and appeared in fairs but was never allowed to return to the land of his birth. He later regretted his surrender and claimed the conditions he made had been ignored. Geronimo died in 1909 from complications of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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Chief Crazy Horse
A4 Plexiglass finished in Pewter.
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Chief Two Moons
(Coming Soon)
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Chief Flying Hawk
Flying Hawk (Oglala Lakota: Cetan Kinyan [Chetankiya] in Standard Lakota Orthography)(a/k/a Moses Flying Hawk)(March, 1854—December 24, 1931) was a Lakota Indian chief, historian and philosopher. Flying Hawk is notable in American history for his classic accounts of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and commentaries on Native American philosophy. He was a brother of Kicking Bear and cousin of Crazy Horse, with whom he participated in nine battles and won them all. Flying Hawk confronted George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
(Coming Soon)
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