The North American Indians
, by Catlin, George- ISBN: 9781582182131 | 1582182132
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2001
The North American Indians features fifty-eight letters and 400 engraved illustrations from the author's original portraits, all in a two-volume set. Book jacket.
George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art. Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840. He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked.
p. 1 | |
Cantonment Leavenworth | |
Shiennes, portraits of | |
Floyd's Grave, Black Bird's Grave | |
Beautiful grassy bluffs | |
Mandan remains, Belle Vue | |
Square hills | |
Mouth of Platte. Buffaloes crossing | |
p. 17 | |
Grouse shooting before the burning prairies | |
Prairie bluffs burning | |
Prairie meadows burning | |
p. 25 | |
Ioways | |
Konzas | |
Mode of shaving the head | |
Pawnees | |
Small-pox amongst Pawnees | |
Major Dougherty's opinion of the Fur Trade | |
Grand Pawnees | |
Ottoes | |
Omahas | |
p. 33 | |
St Louis | |
Loss of Indian curiosities, etc. | |
Governor Clarke | |
p. 36 | |
Pensacola, Florida | |
Perdido | |
Pine woods of Florida | |
Santa Rosa Island | |
Prophecy | |
Start for Camanchee country | |
p. 41 | |
Transit up the Arkansas River | |
Fort Gibson, 1st regiment United States Dragoons reviewed | |
Equipping and starting of Dragoons for the Camanchee country | |
p. 46 | |
Fort Gibson | |
Osages | |
Portraits of Osages | |
Former and present condition of | |
Start for Camanchees and Pawnee Picts | |
p. 51 | |
Mouth of the False Washita and Red River | |
Beautiful prairie country | |
Arkansas grapes | |
Plums | |
Wild Roses, currants, gooseberries, prickly pears, etc. | |
Buffalo chase | |
Murder of Judge Martin and family | |
p. 55 | |
Sickness at the Mouth of False Washita--one half of the regiment start for the Camanchees, under command of Colonel Dodge | |
Sickness of General Leavenworth, and cause of | |
Another buffalo hunt | |
p. 59 | |
Great Camanchee village, Texas | |
A stampedo | |
Meeting a Camanchee war party, and mode of approaching them | |
They turn about and escort the Dragoons to their village | |
Immense herds of buffaloes | |
Buffaloes breaking through the ranks of the Dragoon regiment | |
Wild horses--sagacity of--wild horses at play | |
Joe Chadwick and I "creasing" a wild horse | |
Taking the wild horse with lasso, and "breaking down" | |
Chain of the Rocky Mountain | |
Approach to the Camanchee village | |
Immense number of Camanchee horses--prices of | |
Capt | |
Duncan's purchase | |
p. 72 | |
Description of the Camanchee village, and view of | |
Painting a family group | |
Camanchees moving | |
Wonderful feats of riding | |
Portraits of Camanchee chiefs | |
Estimates of the Camanchees | |
Pawnee Picts, Kioways, and Wicos | |
p. 79 | |
The regiment advance towards the Pawnee village | |
Description and view of the Pawnee village | |
Council in the Pawnee village | |
Recovery of the son of Judge Martin, and the presentation of the three Pawnee and Kioway women to their own people | |
Return of the regiment to the Camanchee village | |
Pawnee Picts, portraits of | |
Kioways, Wicos, portraits of | |
p. 86 | |
Camp Canadian | |
Immense herds of buffaloes | |
Great slaughter of them | |
Extraordinary sickness of the command | |
Suffering from impure water-sickness of the men | |
Horned frogs | |
Curious adventure in catching them | |
Death of General Leavenworth and Lieutenant M'Clure | |
p. 91 | |
Return to Fort Gibson | |
Severe and fatal sickness at that place | |
Death of Lieutenant West | |
Death of the Prussian botanist and his servant | |
Indian Council at Fort Gibson | |
Outfits of trading parties to the Camanchees | |
Probable consequences of | |
Curious minerals and fossil shells collected and thrown away | |
Mountain ridges of fossil shells, of iron and gypsum | |
Saltpetre and salt | |
p. 100 | |
Alton on the Mississippi | |
Captain Wharton | |
His sickness at Fort Gibson | |
The Author starting alone for St Louis, a distance of 500 miles across the prairies | |
His outfit | |
The Author and his horse "Charley" encamped on a level prairie | |
Singular freak, and attachment of the Author's horse | |
A beautiful valley in the prairies | |
An Indian's estimation of a newspaper | |
Riqua's village of Osage | |
Meeting Captain Wharton at the Kickapoo prairie | |
Difficulty of swimming rivers | |
Crossing the Osage | |
Boonville on the Missouri | |
Author reaches Alton, and starts for Florida | |
p. 111 | |
Trip to Florida and Texas, and back to St Louis | |
Kickapoos, portraits of | |
Weas, portraits of | |
Potowatomies, portraits of | |
Kaskasias, portraits of | |
Peorias, portraits of | |
Piankeshaws | |
Delawares | |
Moheconneuhs, or Mohegans | |
Oneidas | |
Tuskaroras | |
Senecas | |
Iroquois | |
p. 123 | |
Flatheads, Nez Perces | |
Flathead mission across the Rocky Mountains to St Louis | |
Mission of the Reverends Messrs Lee and Spalding beyond the Rocky Mountains | |
Chinooks, portraits | |
Process of flattening the head--and cradle | |
Flathead skulls | |
Similar custom of Choctaws | |
Choctaw tradition | |
Curious manufactures of the Chinooks | |
Klickatacks | |
Chuhaylas, and Na-as Indians | |
Character and disposition of the Indians of the Columbia | |
p. 131 | |
Shawanos | |
Shawnee prophet and his transactions | |
Cherokees, portraits of | |
Creeks, portraits of | |
Choctaws, portraits of | |
Ball-play | |
A distinguished ball-player | |
Eagle-dance | |
Tradition of the Deluge | |
Of a future state | |
Origin of the Crawfish band | |
p. 147 | |
Fort Snelling, near the Fall of St Anthony | |
Description of the Upper Mississippi | |
View on the Upper Mississippi and "Dubuque's Grave" | |
Fall of St Anthony | |
Fort Snelling | |
A Sioux cradle, and modes of carrying their children | |
Mourning cradle, same plate | |
Sioux portraits | |
p. 154 | |
Fourth of July at the Fall of St Anthony, and amusements | |
Dog-dance of the Sioux | |
Chippeway village | |
Chippeways making the portage around the Fall of St Anthony | |
Chippeway bark canoes | |
Mandan canoes of skins | |
Sioux canoes | |
Sioux and Chippeway snow-shoes | |
Portraits of Chippeways | |
Snow-shoe dance | |
p. 160 | |
The Author descending the Mississippi in a bark canoe | |
Shot at by Sioux Indians | |
Lake Pepin, and "Lover's Leap" | |
Pike's Tent, and Cap au'l'ail | |
"Cornice Rocks" | |
Prairie du Chien | |
Ball-play of the women | |
Winnebagoes, portraits of | |
Menomonies, portraits of | |
Dubuque | |
Lockwood's cave | |
Camp des Moines, and visit to Keokuk's village | |
p. 171 | |
The Author and his bark canoe sunk in the Des Moine's Rapids | |
The Author left on Mascotin Island | |
Death of Joe Chadwick | |
The "West," not the "Far West" | |
Author's contemplations on the probable future condition of the Great Valley of the Mississippi | |
p. 182 | |
Coteau des Prairies | |
Mackinaw and Sault de St Mary's | |
Catching white fish | |
Canoe race | |
Chippeways, portraits of | |
Voyage up the Fox River | |
Voyage down the Ouisconsin in bark canoe | |
Red Pipe-Stone Quarry, on the Coteau des Prairies | |
Indian traditions relative to the Red Pipe-Stone | |
The "Leaping Rock" | |
The Author and his companion stopped by the Sioux, on their way, and objections raised by the Sioux | |
British medals amongst the Sioux | |
Mons | |
La Fromboise, kind reception | |
Encampment at the Pipe-Stone Quarry | |
Ba'tiste's "Story of the Medicine-Bag" | |
"Story of the Dog," prelude to | |
Leaving the Mandans in canoe | |
Passing the Riccarees in the night | |
Encamping on the side of a clay-bluff, in a thunder-storm | |
p. 213 | |
"Story of the Dog" told | |
Story of Wi-jun-jon (the pigeon's egg head) | |
Further account of the Red Pipe-Stone Quarry, and the Author's approach to it | |
Boulders of the Prairies | |
Chemical analysis of the Red Pipe-Stone | |
p. 235 | |
Author's return from the Coteau des Prairies | |
"Laque du Cygn" | |
Sioux taking Muskrats | |
Gathering wild rice | |
View on St Peter's River | |
The Author and his companion embark in a long canoe at "Traverse de Sioux" | |
Arrive at Fall of St Anthony | |
Lake Pepin | |
Prairie du Chien | |
Cassville | |
Rock Island | |
Sac and Fox Indians, portraits of | |
Ke-o-kuk on horseback | |
Slave-dance | |
"Smoking horses" | |
Begging-dance | |
Sailing in canoes | |
Discovery-dance | |
Dance to the Berdash | |
Dance to the medicine of the brave | |
Treaty with Sacs and Foxes | |
Stipulations of | |
p. 247 | |
Fort Moultrie | |
Seminolees | |
Florida war | |
Prisoners of war | |
Osceola | |
Cloud, King Philip | |
Co-ee-ha-jo | |
Creek Billy, Mickenopah | |
Death of Osceola | |
p. 252 | |
North-Western Frontier | |
General remarks on | |
General appearance and habits of the North American Indians | |
Jewish customs and Jewish resemblances | |
Probable origin of the Indians | |
Languages | |
Government | |
Cruelties of punishments | |
Indian queries on white man's modes | |
Modes of war and peace | |
Pipe of peace dance | |
Religion | |
Picture writing, songs and totems | |
Policy of removing the Indians | |
Trade and small-pox, the principal destroyers of the Indian tribes | |
Murder of the Root Diggers and Riccarees | |
Concluding remarks | |
Appendix A | p. 293 |
Account of the destruction of the Mandans | |
Author's reasons for believing them to have perpetuated the remains of the Welsh Colony established by Prince Madoc | |
Appendix B | p. 299 |
Vocabularies of several different Indian languages, showing their dissimilarity | |
Appendix C | p. 303 |
Comparison of the Indians' original and secondary character | |
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