"Ong-Gwe-Ohn-Weh"

Ong-Gwe-Ohn-Weh is a wooden sculpture of an American Indian created by Peter Toth of Akron, Ohio, in two months during the summer of 1973. It was carved from the lower trunk of a dead elm tree located near the corner of Fifth St.and Park Ave. After completion, the work was moved to this site, where it was dedicated on Sunday October 21, 1973, and accepted on behalf of the city of Dunkirk by Mayor Clemens J. Lutz. Toth donated his time, effort, and the resulting work to the city. He created a number of similar works throughout the country and hoped eventually to have one in each state of the union, as part of his effort to bring into focus in the minds of Americans everywhere the plight of this nation's original citizens.

Dunkirk, New York · United States