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Coffee Coolers - Meet The Hostiles - Native American Indians By Howard Terpning

By Howard Terpning

Coffee Coolers - Meet The Hostiles by Howard Terpning

The “Coffee Coolers” or “Ration Indians” were Indians who had signed a peace treaty and consented to live on a reservation or near an agency. To the “Hostiles” these fellow tribesman had given up the warrior life in exchange for the white man’s handout. Sitting Bull expressed his contempt, “You are fools to make yourself slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hardtack, and a little coffee and sugar.” Yet, the animosity between the Hostiles and the Coffee Coolers was, in the end, misspent energy. Once the great westward expansion began in earnest, the Plains way of life, even for those who continued to hunt and fight, was doomed.

Howard Terpning’s "Coffee Coolers Meet the Hostiles" is a magnificent Museum Edition™ Canvas large in size and extremely limited in number. In this grand fine art edition, the two factions come together on their ancestral land, one offering the peace pipe to other. On the horizon, a storm gathers strength. Perhaps this time, together, they can weather it.

Coffee Coolers - Meet The Hostiles by Howard Terpning as a signed and numbered limited edition giclee canvas with a large 31 x 51 image size priced for sale at $2,775 unframed.

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If your interested in framing please send us an email to discuss the options. If you type the name FRAME on the search box above you can browse through some examples of our materials and designs. A gathering of different tribes of Native American Indians of the plains in high quality First People artwork and giclee canvas fine art prints for sale.

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Signed And Numbered Limited Edition Giclee Canvas 31 x 51 Image Size 50 $2,775.00

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