In 1988 Stan contacted Indian activist/dancer Saginaw Grant after photographing him at Haskell's annual pow wow. On twenty-four acres near Lawrence, the subtractive piece was etched out of volunteer wheat and was an attempt to return to the looser drawing and gradated look of the earlier Satanta portrait, in contrast to the graphic quilt-like, colorfield approach to the two still life's created in1985 and 1987.

Stan used mower, a disc, and a two bladed tractor to give the image its variation and complexity. Farmer Harlan Courtney returned the portrait to the Earth in preparation for winter. Daniel Dancer's photographs of the image, along with Herds other earthworks traveled nationally for five years with the Mid -America Arts Alliance's exhibits.