George Catlin was an American painter who traveled extensively among Native American tribes in the 1830s. He painted nearly 500 portraits of Native Americans to document their lives and culture before they were displaced by white settlers. Catlin believed there were two types of Native Americans - the original character who lived traditionally, and the secondary character who had been influenced by white culture. His paintings provide a visual record of Native American tribes like the Pawnee, Mandan, and Ojibwa before significant cultural changes due to westward expansion.
18. Credits “ George Catlin and his Indian Gallery.” http://americanart.si.edu/Catlin/index.html .
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Cooper’s novel popularized the figure of the stoic, lone Indian observing the passing of his people. Stone's plays drew theatergoers to learn a story of Metacom, or King Philip – the doomed leader of a 17 th century Indian war in New England. The “vanishing” Indians are a permanent fixture in the cultural landscape.
Catlin claimed that he visited 50 nations from the Missouri River to southwest Texas. Born in Pennsylvania in 1796, spent years practicing law in Connecticut. 1821 moves to Philadelphia to become an artist.
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Original character = those not exposed to whites. These are uncorrupted and worthy of representation on canvas. Those who traded and lived among whites were diminished physically and morally by the evils of alcohol, small pox and guns. Believes all will eventually succumb to their secondary nature eventually, as whites continue to move west.
This is not the same as the source. This is the beginning of the ceremony before the “Cutting Scene.”