His painting represents the Selma to Montgomery march to protest the Voting Rights Act, in which state troopers began attacking the unarmed African American marchers with tear gas and billy clubs. The painting brings light on the discrimination of African Americans in the Selma to Montgomery march and how they faced oppression from a form of authority similarly. In, Elouise Cobell: A Small Measure of Justice written by Melinda Janko an experienced Director, Producer, and Writer, illustrates that in Elouise Cobell’s story, her people had to experience the consequential impacts of oppression due to the neglect of the United States. In the article it states “her aunt who needed the lease money from her land to get medical care for her sick husband. Their check finally came in the spring. My aunt died without ever seeing justice, and her husband died from lack of medical care.” Therefore this exemplifies that due to the oppression of the Blackfeet Indian tribe, the United States exacerbated the problem because of their mismanagement of their funds, and denial of their basic needs lead to many of them dying and unjust
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