11038nam 2200553Ia 450 991082387490332120200520144314.0(CKB)1000000000752746(OCoLC)647873177(CaPaEBR)ebrary10364124(SSID)ssj0000432127(PQKBManifestationID)11257943(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432127(PQKBWorkID)10493633(PQKB)11090724(MiAaPQ)EBC3151991(Au-PeEL)EBL3151991(CaPaEBR)ebr10001943(OCoLC)922990902(EXLCZ)99100000000075274619810122d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNorth American IndiansVolume 1 /by George CatlinScituate, MA Digital Scanning20001 online resource (386 p.) Originally published: North American Indians: being letters and notes on their manners, customs, and conditions, written during eight years' travel amongst the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-1839. Edinburgh: J.1-58218-273-6 NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS VOLUME I -- CONTENTS -- LETTER-NO. 1 -- Wyöming, birth-place of the Author. -- His former Profession. -- First cause of his Travels to the Indian Country. -- Delegation of Indians in Philadelphia. -- First start to the Far West, in 1832. -- Design of forming a National Gallery. -- Numbers of Tribes visited, and number of Paintings and other things collected. -- Probable extinction of the Indians. -- Former and present numbers of. -- The proper mode of approaching them, and estimating their character. -- CERTIFICATES of Government Officers, Indian Agents, and others, as to the fidelity of the Portraits and other Paintings. -- LETTER-NO. 2 -- Mouth of Yellow Stone. -- Distance from St Louis. -- Difficulties of the Missouri. -- Politeness of Mr Chouteau and Major Sanford. -- Fur Company's Fort. -- Indian Epicures. -- New and true School for the Arts. -- Beautiful Models. -- LETTER-NO. 3, MOUTH OF YELLOW STONE -- Character of Missouri River. -- Beautiful prairie shores. -- Picturesque clay bluffs. -- First appearance of a steamer at the Yellow Stone, and curious conjectures of the Indians about it. -- Fur Company's Establishment at the mouth of the Yellow Stone. -- M'Kenzie. -- His table and politeness. -- Indian tribes in this vicinity. -- LETTER-NO. 4, MOUTH OF YELLOW STONE -- Upper Missouri Indians. -- General character. -- Buffaloes. -- Description of. -- Modes of killing them. -- Buffalo-hunt. -- Chardon's Leap. -- Wounded bull. -- Extraordinary feat of Mr M'Kenzie. -- Return from the chase. -- LETTER-NO. 5, MOUTH OF YELLOW STONE -- Author's painting-room, and characters in it. -- Blackfoot chief. -- Other Blackfoot chiefs, and their costumes. -- Blackfoot woman and child. -- Scalps, and objects for which taken. -- Red pipes, and pipe-stone quarry. -- Blackfoot bows, shields, arrows, and lances.Several distinguished Blackfeet. -- LETTER-NO. 6, MOUTH OF YELLOW STONE -- Medicines or mysteries. -- Medicine-bag. -- Origin of the word medicine. -- Mode of forming the medicine-bag. -- Value of the medicine-bag to the Indian, and materials for their construction. -- Blackfoot doctor or medicine-man. -- His mode of curing the sick. -- Different offices and importance of medicine-men. -- LETTER-NO. 7, MOUTH OF YELLOW STONE -- Crows and Blackfeet. -- General character and appearance. -- Killing and drying meat. -- Crow lodge or wigwam. -- Mode of dressing and smoking skins. -- Crows. -- Beauty of their dresses. -- Horse-stealing or capturing. -- Reasons why they are called rogues and robbers of the first order, etc. -- LETTER-NO. 8, MOUTH OF YELLOW STONE -- Further remarks on the Crows. -- Extraordinary length of hair. -- Peculiarities of the Crow head, and several portraits. -- Crow and Blackfeet women. -- Their modes of dressing and painting. -- Differences between the Crow and Blackfoot languages. -- Different bands. -- Different languages, and numbers of the Blackfeet. -- Knisteneaux. -- Assinneboins, and Ojibbeways. -- Assinneboins a part of the Sioux. -- Their mode of boiling meat. -- Pipe-dance. -- Wi-jun-jon (a chief) and wife. -- His visit to Washington. -- Dresses of women and children of the Assinneboins. -- Knisteneaux (or Crees). -- Character and numbers, and several portraits. -- Ojibbeways. -- Chief and wife. -- LETTER-NO. 9, MOUTH OF YELLOW STONE -- Contemplations of the Great Far West and its customs. -- Old acquaintance. -- March and effects of civilisation. -- The "Far West." -- The Author in search of it. -- Meeting with "Ba'tiste," a free trapper. -- LETTER-NO. 10, MANDAN VILLAGE, UPPER MISSOURI -- A strange place. -- Voyage from Mouth of Yellow Stone down the river to Mandans. -- Commencement. -- Leave M'Kenzie's Fort.Assinneboins encamped on the river. -- Wi-jun-jon lecturing on the customs of white people. -- Mountain-sheep. -- War-eagles. -- Grizzly bears. -- Clay bluffs, "brick-kilns," volcanic remains. -- Red pumice stone. -- A wild stroll. -- Mountaineer's sleep. -- Grizzly bear and cubs. -- Courageous attack. -- Canoe robbed. -- Eating our meals on a pile of drift-wood. -- Encamping in the night. -- Voluptuous scene of wild flowers, buffalo bush and berries. -- Adventure after an elk. -- War-party discovered. -- Magnificent scenery in the "Grand Détour." -- Stupendous clay bluffs. -- Table land. -- Antelope shooting. -- "Grand Dome." -- Village. -- Fruitless endeavours to shoot them. -- Pictured bluff and the Three Domes. -- Arrival at the Mandan village. -- LETTER-NO. 11, MANDAN VILLAGE -- Location. -- Village. -- Former locations, fortification of their village. -- Description of village and mode of constructing their wigwams. -- Description of interior. -- Beds. -- Weapons. -- Family groups. -- Indian garrulity. -- Jokes. -- Fire-side fun and story-telling. -- Causes of Indian taciturnity in civilised society. -- LETTER-NO. 12, MANDAN VILLAGE -- Bird's-eye view of the village. -- The "big canoe." -- Medicine-lodge. -- A strange medley. -- Mode of depositing the dead on scaffolds. -- Respect to the dead. -- Visiting the dead. -- Feeding the dead. -- Converse with the dead. -- Bones of the dead. -- LETTER-NO. 13, MANDAN VILLAGE -- The wolf-chief. -- Head-chief of the tribe. -- Several portraits. -- Personal appearance. -- Peculiarities. -- Complexion. -- "Cheveux gris." -- Hair of the men. -- Hair of the women -- Bathing and swimming. -- Mode of swimming. -- Sudatories or vapour baths. -- LETTER-NO. 14, MANDAN VILLAGE -- Costumes of the Mandans. -- High value set upon them. -- Two horses for a head-dress. -- Made of war-eagle's quills and ermine.Head-dresses with horns. -- A Jewish custom. -- LETTER-NO. 15, MANDAN VILLAGE -- Astonishment of the Mandans at the operation of the Author's brush. -- The Author installed medicine or medicine-man. -- Crowds around the Author. -- Curiosity to see and to touch him. -- Superstitious fears for those who were painted. -- Objections raised to being painted. -- The Author's operations opposed by a Mandan doctor, or Medicine-man, and how brought over. -- LETTER-NO. 16, MANDAN VILLAGE -- An Indian beau or dandy. -- A fruitless endeavour to paint one. -- Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears), second chief of the tribe. -- The Author feasted in his wigwam. -- Viands of the feast. -- Pemican and marrow-fat. -- Mandan pottery -- Robe presented. -- LETTER-NO. 17, MANDAN VILLAGE -- Polygamy. -- Reasons and excuses for it. -- Marriages, how contracted. -- Wives bought and sold. -- Paternal and filial affection. -- Virtue and modesty of women. -- Early marriages. -- Slavish lives and occupations of the Indian women. -- Pomme blanche. -- Dried meat. -- Caches. -- Modes of cooking, and times of eating. -- Attitudes in eating. -- Separation of males and females in eating. -- The Indians moderate eaters. -- Some exceptions. -- Curing meat in the sun, without smoke or salt. -- The wild Indians eat no salt. -- LETTER-NO. 18, MANDAN VILLAGE -- Indian dancing. -- "Buffalo dance." -- Discovery of buffaloes. -- Preparations for the chase. -- Start. -- A decoy. -- A retreat. -- Death and scalping. -- LETTER-NO. 19 MANDAN VILLAGE -- Sham fight and sham scalp dance of the Mandan boys. -- Game of Tchungkee. -- Feasting. -- Fasting and sacrificing. -- White buffalo robe. -- Its value. -- Rain makers and rain stoppers. -- Rain making. -- "The thunder boat." -- The big double medicine. -- LETTER-NO. 20 MANDAN VILLAGE -- Mandan archery. -- "Game of the arrow." -- Wild horses.Horse-racing. -- Foot war-party in council. -- LETTER-NO. 21, MANDAN VILLAGE, UPPER MISSOURI -- Mah-to-toh-pa (the four bears). -- His costume and his portrait. -- The robe of Mah-to-toh-pa, with all the battles of his life painted on it. -- LETTER-NO. 22, MANDAN VILLAGE -- Mandan religious ceremonies. -- Mandan religious creed. -- Three objects of the ceremony. -- Place of holding the ceremony. -- Big canoe. -- Season of commencing, and manner. -- Opening the medicine lodge. -- Sacrifices to the water. -- Fasting scene for four days and nights. -- Bel-lohck-nah-pick (the bull dance). -- Pohk-hong (the cutting or torturing scene). -- Eh-ke-nah-ka-nah-pick (the last race). -- Extraordinary instances of cruelty in self-torture. -- Sacrificing to the water. -- Certificates of the Mandan ceremonies. -- Inferences drawn from these horrible cruelties, with traditions. -- Tradition of O-kee-hee-de (the Evil Spirit). -- Mandans can be civilised. -- LETTER-NO. 23, MINATAREE VILLAGE -- Location and numbers. -- Origin. -- Principal village. -- Vapour baths. -- Old chief, Black Moccasin. -- Two portraits, man and woman. -- Green corn dance. -- LETTER-NO. 24, MINATAREE VILLAGE -- Crows, in the Minataree village. -- Crow chief on horseback, in full dress. -- Peculiarities of the Crows. -- Long hair. -- Semi-lunar faces. -- Rats in the Minataree village. -- Crossing Knife River in "bull boat." -- Swimming of Minataree girls. -- Horse-racing. -- A banter. -- Riding a "naked horse." -- Grand buffalo surround. -- Cutting up and carrying in meat. -- LETTER-NO. 25, LITTLE MANDAN VILLAGE, UPPER MISSOURI -- An Indian offering himself for a pillow. -- Portraits of Riccarees. -- Riccarees village -- Origin of the Mandans. -- Welsh colony. -- Expedition of Madoc. -- LETTER-No. 26, MOUTH OF TETON RIVER -- Sioux or (Dah-co-ta). -- Fort Pierre.Mississippi and Missouri Sioux.Indians of North AmericaIndians of North AmericaWest (U.S.)Indians of North America.Indians of North AmericaCatlin George1796-1872.177433MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823874903321North American Indians3993878UNINA