Appeal to the Great Spirit

Appeal to the Great Spirit is a 1908 equestrian statue by Cyrus Dallin, installed in 1912 on the front lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where it has remained since. It portrays an anonymous Native American figure in a mix of Diné- Lakota-style regalia on horseback facing skyward. Dallin portrays the figure with his arms outstretched, as if in a spiritual request to the Great Spirit. It is the final of the four sculptures created within the series, The Epic of the Indian, which also includes A Signal of Peace (1890), The Medicine Man (1899), and Protest of the Sioux (1904).

A statuette of Appeal to the Great Spirit is in the permanent collection of the White House and was exhibited in President Bill Clinton's Oval Office. British Prime Minister Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George also had a statuette, which he received in association with a meeting with Sioux Chief Two Eagle during an Octo…

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