Wow! Imagine yourself riding the Flaming Arrow Express monorail at the proposed Trail of Tears Park in Tennessee. Imagine yourself visiting the Sacred Ground Pavilion. Imagine yourself in the seats of the Great Spirit Arena. What an amazing memorial it will be honoring those American Indians who walked the Trail of Tears from the southeast to Oklahoma. Right? Right?
And when you’re tired of cavorting in the water park, on the way back to the hotel you can take a quiet moment and honor the Trail of Tears dead as proposed to be depicted in this mammoth bronze statue, Going Home, in which a caucasian angel carries to heaven a little American Indian girl, the American Indian mother on her knees clasping the gown of the angel.
Oh barf. Puke. Upchuck.
I mean, the cluelessness + ambition to profit off the sorrows of others is no question evident.
But a white Farah Fawcett angel carrying off the body of a dead (presumably Cherokee) child?
Reminds of when Hatuey was about to be torched at the stake for his rebellion and a priest offered him the opportunity to save his soul that he might rest in heaven and Hatuey asked if white men were in heaven and the priest said yes and Hatuey said forget it because white people were just too cruel to spend an etermity around them (paraphrasing).
This is so sick. Not just wrong but revoltingly twisted sick.
A news article gives a scant few details on it, including the supposed educational exhibits plus major hotel and spa and the indoor water park.
What happened is some stupid white people started doodling on their napkins at the dining table after Thanksgiving Dinner, one of them having recently been to visit the Four Big Heads in South Dakota had passed by the Crazy Horse monument, and another was feeling wistful about Elvis Presley in “It Happned at the World’s Fair”, and another knew how to draw really “lifelike” angels.
Update: Oh well, was more involved than dinner napkins and a Thanksgiving dinner. Looked up Coriell Specs and Designs, who did the drawings, and I came across a description for a “Coriell Studios Gallery of Christian Art – Christian artist Brad Coriell portrays God’s passion for us in his biblically-inspired sculptures, monuments, reliefs, murals, paintings and stage backdrops” and I thought, ahh, that sounds about right doesn’t it. Among Coriell’s clients are Walt Disney, Warner brothers, Sears, Sony, Audobon (etcentera etcetera), Colorado Cattlemans Association, Florida Cattlemans Association, Norman Rockwell Museum, U.S. Supreme Court, Ronald Reagan Library, John F. Kennedy Library, Lincoln Library, U.S. Governtment, Oral Roberts Ministry, Richard Roberts Ministries, Kenneth Copeland Ministries, Kenneth Hagin Ministries etcetera etcetera, the Saudi and British Royal Families and Elton John and Charlton Heston and etcetera etcetera. This project hasn’t made it into anticipated projects on the website but it fits with what’s shown under the Art-Engineering part of the portfolio.
Update: I was being too generous. There’s nothing clueless about it. Pure unadulterated let’s-see-if-we-can-mine-this-one snake oil greed.
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