Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existingCatlin, George
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Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2): With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing
Catlin, George
Indians of North America
Besides these two chiefs, I have also painted _Ma-shee-na_ (the elk’s
horn) _Ke-chim-qua_ (the big bear), warriors, and _Ah-tee-wot-o-mee_,
and _She-nah-wee_, women of the same tribe, whose portraits are in the
Gallery.
WEE-AHS.
These are also the remnant of a once powerful tribe, and reduced by
the same causes, to the number of 200. This tribe formerly lived in
the State of Indiana, and have been moved with the Piankeshaws, to a
position forty or fifty miles south of Fort Leavenworth.
_Go-to-kow-pah-a_ (he who stands by himself, +plate+ 187), and
_Wa-pon-je-a_ (the swan), are two of the most distinguished warriors of
the tribe, both with intelligent European heads.
POT-O-WAT-O-MIES.
The remains of a tribe who were once very numerous and warlike, but
reduced by whiskey and small-pox, to their present number, which is not
more than 2700. This tribe may be said to be semi-civilized, inasmuch
as they have so long lived in contiguity with white people, with whom
their blood is considerably mixed, and whose modes and whose manners
they have in many respects copied. From a similarity of language as
well as of customs and personal appearance, there is no doubt that
they have formerly been a part of the great tribe of Chippeways or
Ot-ta-was. Living neighbours and adjoining to them, on the North. This
tribe live within the state of Michigan, and there own a rich and very
valuable tract of land; which, like the Kickapoos, they are selling
out to the Government, and about to remove to the west bank of the
Missouri, where a part of the tribe have already gone and settled, in
the vicinity of Fort Leavenworth. Of this tribe I have painted the
portraits of _On-saw-kie_ (the Sac, +plate+ 189), in the attitude of
prayer, and _Na-pow-sa_ (the Bear travelling in the night,) +plate+
190, one of the principal chiefs of the tribe. These people have for
some time lived neighbours to, and somewhat under the influence of the
Kickapoos; and very many of the tribe have become zealous disciples
of the Kickapoo prophet, using his prayers most devoutly, and in the
manner that I have already described, as is seen in the first of the
two last-named portraits.
KAS-KAS-KI-AS.
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