Last to Lead His People
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Edition of 44
20" x 12" x 12"
$3,400.00
He was formed not from age, but from memory—shaped by the winds of the plains and the silence of fading fires. In him lived the echo of thundering hooves, war cries, and the victory songs that once rose with the dawn. Now, he stands in stillness, faced with a changing future for his people, yet his spirit still moves like wind through tall grass.
His face bears the truth of endurance: not the fierce glare of defiance, but the deep calm of one who has met both victory and sorrow and bowed to neither. His lips are closed, but there is a whisper in their stillness, a language older than words. It speaks of rivers turned to dust, of songs turned to silence, and of a people that refused to be forgotten. This is the spirit of a man who once carried an entire tribe upon his shoulders. The last to lead his people.
"Go forward with courage. When you are in doubt, be still, and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still; be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists – as it surely will. Then act with courage."
- Chief White Eagle, Ponca Chief