One of this year’s Most Inappropriate Public Sculpture awards will surly go to the Indian head reliefs bolted to the lampposts that
help light downtown Salt Lake City. Although the Mormons started out kind of
neutral to the local tribes, as their settlements grew the First Nation peoples
were inevitably pushed out to reservations or induced to leave the state to
avoid starvation. The placement of the reliefs at dog level is a metaphor probably
not lost on the odd Indian that ventures into SLC.
