Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8024298 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert W Richmond (corresponding author), George Catlin |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 146-146 |
| Publication date | 1975-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1183504 |
| OpenAlex | W2046964590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 86 |
Although he is best known for his paintings of Native Americans, George Catlin (1796–1872) also wrote books about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the United States. During the 1830s he travelled widely in the western frontier regions with the aim of documenting the vanishing cultures of the Indians, and managed to meet 48 groups. This was a critical time for Native Americans, as US government policies were forcing many tribes off their ancestral land and onto reservations west of the Mississippi River. Catlin's two-volume work, published in 1841, is a compilation of his letters and field notes, and includes over 300 drawings of people, artefacts and animals. Catlin, following the Romantic tradition, expresses admiration for the 'honest and honourable' Indians, and disgust at 'civilised man' having made them 'victims to whiskey, the small-pox and the bayonet'. Volume 2 focuses on tribes in Arkansas, Texas and Florida
Genealogy · Geography · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · History
Adding insult to injury
Buffalo and Snow
Representative Assemblies in New France
Evidence of Prehistoric Scalping at Vosberg, Central Arizona
Pipestone’s True Grit
Violence and Deep Play
Ethnic Violence, Galactic Polities, and the Great Transformation
The Life and Death of Four Bears
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age
Aztecs
Bone Fragments and Bone Grease Manufacturing
Amazonian Ethnography and the Politics of Renewal
Zur Soziologie des Sports
Digging Ditches
Side-Notched and Unnotched Arrowpoints
The origin of tribal styles
A Computer Simulation of Euro-American Trade Good Flow to the Arikara
Kiowa and Comanche Baby Carriers
A Petroglyph Robe from Atherton Canyon, Montana
Bear Gulch style shield heraldry
Brothers in Arms
The nineteenth-century Mandan/Arikara village at Fort Clark
Arrowheads, folklore, and documentary sources
Catlin’s portrait Of iron Horn
Historic Period Metal Projectile Points And Arrows, Alberta, Canada
George W. Hill’S Account Of The Sioux Sun Dance of 1866
A Test for Shamanic Trance in Central Montana Rock Art
Magnetic investigations of nomadic group encampments at Fort Clark State Historic Site, North Dakota
A Reappraisal of Anasazi Cannibalism
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists
The hooked stick in the Lascaux shaft scene
The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West
Differing Patterns of Material Culture Intergroup Variation on the High Plains
Beyond palisades
Estimating prehistoric American Indian population size for united states area
Implications of Catlin's American Indian population estimates for revision of Mooney's estimate
Frequency of pregnancies and birth interval among pueblo Indians
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Native Art as Art History
Travois Transport and Field Processing
Cultural patterns within and outside of the post-contact Great Plains as revealed by parfleche characteristics
Cheval Bonnet
Women in Bullboats
Problèmes d'historiographie américaine
An Analysis of the Symbolism Expressed by the Birger Figurine
Figurines, Flint Clay Sourcing, the Ozark Highlands, and Cahokian Acquisition
Plains-Pueblo Interdependence and Human Diet at Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico
Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Out
Reclaiming the Land, Reclaiming the Indian
Native Views of Native Languages
Was We'wha a Homosexual
"Indians" and native Americans in the movies
A Metal Arrowhead from Coryell County, Texas
A Report of a New Mandan Calendric Chart
Acculturation in the Middle Missouri Valley as Reflected in Modified Bone Assemblages
Psoralea Esculent A as a Prairie Resource
Getting the Point
Perforated Elk Teeth
Shields and Lodges, Warriors and Chiefs
The Horse Creek Site
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Values and Nuclear War Attitudes
Communicating with the Dead
Functionality and Morphology
Getting to the point
The Removal of Ear Trophies Associated with Scalpings in Prehistoric North Alabama
Evidence of Prehistoric Scalping at Vosberg, Central Arizona
One certainly expected a great deal more from the savages’
Nature's most beautiful models’
Cultural responses to the altithermal
Evidence for eolian deposition in the sandy uplands of East Texas and the implications for archaeological site integrity
Benevolent imperialism
DNA from ancient stone tools and bones excavated at Bugas-Holding, Wyoming
Ethnicity and firearms in the Upper Missouri bison-robe trade
A Tale of Two Weapons
Culture as Nature
Every Picture Tells a Story
Warfare and big game hunting
McKean Complex Projectile Point Typology and Function in the Pine Parklands
The Inter-tribal Balance of Power on the Great Plains, 1760–1850
Scapulae for shovels
Horizons of the sublime
The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast and Its Archaeological Manifestations
Prairie Prospects
Re-Reading the Portrait and the Archive’s Social Memory
Power Suits
A Ventriloquy of Anthros
| Unique citing works | 86 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 1931 - 2021 (91) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 83 |