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Updated: June 23, 2025
"I don't trust the weather at this season; and besides you had better be looking over your wardrobe for the Christmas Eve party at Sol. Catlin's." "Why, father, you don't intend to go to that man's?" said the girl, looking up with a troubled face. "Lawyer Miller," as he was called by his few neighbors, looked slightly embarrassed. "Why not?" he asked in a faintly irritated tone. "Why not?
"And when it comes to taxation," added another, "the country members are always giving the cities the big end to carry." "I had a talk with Catlin," said Peter. "It seemed to me that he wasn't the right kind of man." "Catlin's a timid man, who never likes to commit himself. That's because he always wants to do what his backers tell him.
We hope, too, there will be a national institute, containing all the remains of the Indians, all that has been preserved by official intercourse at Washington, Catlin's collection, and a picture gallery as complete as can be made, with a collection of skulls from all parts of the country. To this should be joined the scanty library that exists on the subject.
Benjamin Sulte was one of the first to discover that the Mascoutins had been in Nebraska, though he does not attempt to trace this part of Radisson's journey definitely. The entire account of the people on "the Forked River" is so exact an account of the Mandans that it might be a page from Catlin's descriptions two centuries later.
The composition of the household, as here described, is precisely like the household of the Iroquois prior to A.D. 1700. The Mandan village contained at the time of Catlin's visit , as elsewhere stated, about fifty houses and about fifteen hundred people.
So he pretended that he always killed the boys, cut them up, and burnt them to ashes, after which he moulded the ashes into human shape, and restored them to life as new beings. See Catlin's North-American Indians, vol. i, for initiations and ordeals among the Mandans. De Errore, c. 22.
Catlin's gallery, which he praised highly: observing that his own portrait was among the collection, and that all the likenesses were 'elegant. Mr. Cooper, he said, had painted the Red Man well; and so would I, he knew, if I would go home with him and hunt buffaloes, which he was quite anxious I should do.
A year after Catlin's visit his Mandan friends experienced a frightful calamity. A trading steamboat brought the small-pox to them, and, as happened in the case of many other tribes in the West, its ravages were fearful. Not being protected by vaccination, and knowing nothing of the treatment of the disease, the poor creatures died horribly.
This story, which Catlin says is attested by white men who were in the Mandan village at the time, may stand as a notable instance of savage vengefulness and daring, cunning and treachery, but it will scarcely serve to make us believe in Catlin's "noble Mandan gentlemen," of whom he puts forward Mah-to-toh-pa as a conspicuous example.
Catlin's visit, these people had been able to defend themselves and their possessions against the roving bands which surrounded them on all sides; but, soon after, they were attacked by small-pox, which cut them all off except a small party, whom their enemies rushed in upon and destroyed to a man.
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