Although the American Indian has been the subject of insatiable curiosity and unrelieved romanticization by whites, almost 500 years of losing battles have made him nearly invisible.
He was only redoing Emanuel Leutze's heroic tableau, painted in 1851 in Dsseldorf, which was in itself a pretty dubious romanticization of the past.
That is why we have this romanticization of the past.
Why not a Super Bowl at Lambeau Field? On Sunday there was a Super Bowl played at a 'cold weather' site. You'd think the media had never heard of cold weather, despite the romanticization of the 1967 'Ice Bowl' in Green Bay, played at minus-15 degrees and for the NFL Championship.
Feb. 4, 2014 - Sheboygan Press