Description
This Crow Trinity highlights the Great Spirit as the Sacred Eagle whose wings enfold the mystical unity of the elder and the Son. The Christ wears a warrior shirt of native tanned hide, glass beads, porcupine quills and ermine skins. The ermine skins indicate that the man wearing this shirt is an old-time warrior who has captured his enemy's gun. Contemplating the Christ within the symbol of the warrior shirt we see him victorious in disarming death of its ultimacy.
Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This icon, imaged in the features of America's indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land.