Celebrating A Skater Way of Life

• By Alexander Comisar
• Roll Call Staff
• June 18, 2009, Midnight

In a roomy space on the second floor of the National Museum of the American Indian, there is a modest wall adorned with two vividly colored paintings hanging side by side. The first, loudly beaming with red and yellow rays, depicts a Native American warrior mounted proudly atop a stallion with his arms desperately outstretched. Blood-red letters underneath the figure say, “It’s a good day to die.”