Jim Carson (Georgia / North Carolina, b. 1942), "The Migration", 2024, oil on canvas sight: 36 x 64 in., frame: 42.5 x 73 in. Provenance: The collection of the artist, Saluda, North Carolina Historical background from the artist:  Before the arrival of Europeans, many Native American tribes lived nomadic lifestyles. They moved around in small family-based bands to take advantage of natural resources and pursue their livelihoods. From 8,000 BCE to 1500 CE, the Great Plains people were nomadic, following buffalo herds and moving up to 100 times a year. Native Americans on the Plains would build teepees out of buffalo skin and wood to hunt buffalo herds. They would also plant crops and establish villages in the spring and harvest in the fall and hunt in the winter. Other Southwestern peoples, such as Navajo and Apache, were more nomadic. They survived by hunting, gathering and raiding their neighbors for their crops. Because these groups were always on the move, their homes were much less permanent. With the coming of the white man, the nomadic lifestyle of the Indian was curtailed by warring with the whites. --Jim Carson, 2024