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"I love a people who have always made me welcome to the best they had…who are honest without laws, who have no jails and 110 poorhouse ... who never take the name of God in vain ... who worship God without a Bible, and I believe that God loves them also. .. and oh! how I love a people who don't live for the love of money." - George Catlin
Between 1830 and 1836, Catlin explored the world of Native Americans in the vast and largely unvisited area from the upper Missouri River and the headwaters of the Mississippi to the Mexican Territory in the far Southwest. He produced written documentation as well as comprehensive pictorial records that included portraits of chieftains- Keokuk (The watchful Fox), Chief of the Tribe, 1832-warriors, and medicine men and women. He also portrayed ceremonies, dances, hunting, games, and warfare. On his own, with neither financial support nor official sanction, Catlin pursued his mission from tribe to tribe, making careful, accurate representations. These ultimately formed the basis for the Indian Gallery opened by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Catlin's feelings about his subject are expressed in the quotation above. Some of his contemporaries accused him of sentimentality, perhaps to avoid feeling guilty about claiming the territories Indians inhabited. Contemporary critics are more likely to challenge Catlin for exploiting Native Americans for his own artistic and economic interests than for romanticizing them.
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