... Fritz Scholder International Indian Treaty Council World Council of Indigenous Peoples American Indian Movement Transylvania ...

... Fritz Scholder’s paintings conjured the United States’ betrayal of its treaty obligations to Native nations before diverse publics abroad in 1972. Disgusted by the US government’s propaganda, the artist defected from a tour in Romania to visit Dracula’s castle and paint a little-known Indian...

... stereotype of the Ecological Indian. Using an example of a painting by Fritz Scholder that traveled to Romania in 1972, the author connects the fraught history of United States treaties with Native nations to the fresh betrayals of the Indian Termination policy, arguing that these circumstances conditioned...