In this artwork, how is the The Epic of the Indian of the Background elucidated?
A Signal of Peace is one of Dallin's four most prominent sculptures of Indigenous people, alongside The Medicine Man (1899), Protest of the Sioux (1904), and Appeal to the Great Spirit (1908). The four works are sometimes described as a series known as The Epic of the Indian.Dallin himself did not refer to the four sculptures as a series, but critics have often interpreted the works as a narrative about the fate of Native Americans. According to this reading, the series begins with A Signal of Peace depicting the "naive" welcome of Europeans by the Indian chief. This moment is followed by  hesitancy and the realization that white settlers may cause harm in The Medicine Man. With The Protest of the Sioux, the American Indian is seen as fighting back against mistreatment from settlers. Appeal to the Great Spirit is then interpreted to represent the defeat of Indigenous people, as the Native American adopts a pose of surrender.
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