Whiskey Smugglers by artist Howard Terpning

Whiskey Smugglers by Howard Terpning.

 

A band of Sioux warriors has come upon a wagon loaded down with contraband in Howard Terpning's award-winning Whiskey Smugglers. The strangers talk and smile with their mouths but their eyes and their hearts are hard. The white man's whiskey was a curse upon the People. It induced an initial euphoric state like that experienced during a sacred vision quest. But there were no spiritual revelations . . . nothing at all but drunkenness and despair. The white man's empty promises and treaties could rob the People of their land. His whiskey could steal their souls.

 

Released August 2012.