Chief White Eagle - Agoura Hills, California
Chief White Eagle - Agoura Hills, California
Some people have dreams that just HAVE to be realized. That seems to be the case of the creation of Chief White Eagle. Standing on a hill overlooking Agoura this 14 foot tall figure of an American Indian dressed as he would have been if he lived in the Plains states for over 64 years is the creation of the artist, De Strelecki.
De Strelecki, a Polish nobleman, wanted to create something of beauty to pay tribute to the Native Americans who first inhabited the Santa Monica Mountains. The thought was wonderful, the artwork interesting, but it doesn’t at all look like the Chumash Indians who hunted and gathered seeds in this local coastal mountains region for years. It is more like the Plains Indians even though it was said to be modeled after a Seminole Indian from the East Coast.
