Duane Slick
Coyote’s Blue Laughter, 2001
Lithograph
Museum purchase from the University of Arizona Foundation for the Benefit of Lasting Impressions
Three hundred years ago, people who look like me came across the ocean to steal and exploit and destroy. I am ashamed of them, of the people who made promises with the intention of breaking them, who tore the world apart for personal gain. I live on the land they stole. But I am not them. I will tell their ugly stories to the world. I look like them, but I will never become them. I am more than the past, I am the future.