Jaune Quick-to-See Smith uses rhythmic structure in her Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People) to communicate pride in Native American culture.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith uses rhythmic structure:

As a reaction to the 500th commemoration of Christopher Columbus' appearance in North America in 1992, the craftsman Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation, made an enormous blended media canvas called Trade (Gifts for Trading Land with White People). It Illustrates recorded and contemporary disparities between Native Americans and the United States government. References the job of exchange products colonization and the relocation of local terrains.

It portrays how Native Americans were constrained into exchanging their territory trade for inexpensively, knickknacks that generalization them to show commodification of Native life. Both Schwitters and Rauschenberg brought objects from the quotidian world into their work, for example, tickets, cigarette wrappers, and string.