BUNKY ECHO-HAWK Native American (Pawnee-Yakama), born 1975 Freshman 15, 2014 Acrylic on canvas © Bunky Echo-Hawk Gift of the Artist 2016.226 Created during a live paint at William & Mary, this painting is an example of Echo-Hawk’s activism in support of food security for American Indians living on reservations. The 1491 date depicted on the canvas is a clear reference to the pre-Columbian past, when corn or maize, was a food source solely in control of Native people. As a result of European colonization, corn spread around the globe and now feeds humans and animals in far flung places. […]