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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The Indians are wrapped in blankets and you can see part of the adobe cooking ovens or hornos to the left in the print and the drying racks which are used to store firewood and to dry goods after the harvest or dry skins for later use.
The production of Indian blankets resumed as the Bishops applied intuitive business concepts for quality products and distinctive styling.
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Abu Kashir,
Gas Station Attendant
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Indians came to the general store to trade fur pelts, beads and blankets for tobacco and groceries.
Blankets were available, as they are well known in history as trade items with American Indians.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Historically, Indian people wore blankets made from woven plant fibers, animal hides and fur and eventually from fabric woven by hand from wool or cotton.
These modern Mato are handsewn from Pendleton and other Indian design blankets and most include choker and music box.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The Bishop brothers began producing quality bed and Indian blankets in vivid colors and intricate designs inspired by the Native American tribes of the region.
Biological weapons are not new: the use of smallpox infected blankets as gifts to indigenous American Indians or plague corpses to break sieges are early examples.
Following an Indian rebellion in 1763, Amherst ordered two blankets and a hankerchief from a smallpox hospital to be sent as gifts to the Ohio tribe.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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These Indian trade blankets are new, but based on old designs from the 1890's to WWII that fell out of production.
The Indian women wrapped in thick blankets carried the weapons of war.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Soldiers distributed blankets that had been used by smallpox patients with the intent of initiating outbreaks among American Indians.
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