E S S A Y
Edward Welch
Oscar Howe’s Wounded Knee Massacre and the Politics & Popular Culture of an American Masterpiece There is not one iota of evidence to sustain the belief that there was any ordered or organized brutality. —Will G. Robinson, South Dakota state historian, 1960
Wounded Knee Massacre, casein on paper, 1959-1960, Oscar Howe, Yanktonai Dakota (1915-1983).
If there is any error in the painting by Oscar Howe it is only the limitations inherent in depiciting action that spread over several miles within the borders of a single canvas.
—Robert Pennington, 1961