QUATIE’S BLANKET
16 x 26" double matted and framed in gunmetal
Quatie’s Blanket is an addition of 250 with 25 artist proofs.
During the winter of 1838-39 the entire Cherokee Nation was removed from their homeland in
the Southeastern United States and marched overland to Indian Territory. Everyone suffered
the hardships along what people refer to today as the Trail of Tears. Chief John Ross led
the last detachment made up of many elderly people and children. Among the people lost was
the Chief’s beloved wife Quatie. Though already suffering she gave up the only
blanket shielding her from the elements. The compassion Quatie showed a sick child cost
her, her life.
The quote in the painting is from Pvt.
Burnett’s letters home to his wife. He stood guard over Quatie the night she died.
" Chief Ross led in prayer and when the bugle sounded and the wagons started rolling,
many of the children waved their little hands goodbye to their mountain homes."
Only the Names Remain
This history of the Cherokees in Georgia, originally
published in 1972 and textually unrevised here, remains elegantly elegiac,
bringing both clarity and immediacy to a complicated story. The book
concisely covers the period from centuries before the arrival of the first
white man in 1540, to the removal of most traces of the Cherokee Nation from
Georgia after 1837, through the Trail of Tears, a journey that took one life
in four among those who attempted it.
