North American Indians
North American Indians by George Catlin, published by Penguin on February 24, 2004, is an illustrated edition comprising 560 pages. This work documents Catlin’s extensive travels among various Native American tribes from 1831 to 1837, capturing their customs, ceremonies, and daily life through detailed notes and sketches. His fieldwork resulted in over five hundred oil paintings and journals that provide a comprehensive account of the Plains Indians at a pivotal moment in their history.
Readers will find a rich exploration of the diverse cultures of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, including the Muskogee, Lakota, and Comanche, among others. The book features more than fifty reproductions of Catlin’s paintings, enhancing the narrative with visual representations of the tribes he encountered. This edition serves as a significant resource for those interested in history, social science, and Native American studies, offering insights into the lives and traditions of these communities before their cultures faced profound changes.
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From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees of the North to the Comanches of eastern Texas. Studying their habits, customs, and modes of life, he made copious notes and numerous sketches of ceremonies, buffalo hunts, symbols, and totems. Catlin’s unprecedented fieldwork culminated in more than five hundred oil paintings and his now-legendary journals, which, as Peter Matthiessen writes in his introduction, “taken together… constitute the first, last, and only ‘complete’ record of the Plains Indians ever made at the height of their splendid culture, so soon destroyed by traders’ liquor and disease, rapine and bayonets.”
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A one-volume edition of Catlin’s journals
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Illustrated with more than fifty reproductions of Catlin’s incomparable paintings
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