North Dakota

George Catlin's images of Mandan villages and the Upper Missouri give these prints of North Dakota a powerful Indigenous his...

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George Catlin's images of Mandan villages and the Upper Missouri give these prints of North Dakota a powerful Indigenous history, with people, ceremonies, houses, painted robes and daily life across the northern Plains, seen through his nineteenth-century eyes. Some subjects reach into neighbouring tribal territories beyond the later state boundary. The maps, dated from the later nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, show county divisions, railways, highways and Indigenous land cessions, while earlier regional sheets show Dakota before separate statehood and Stanford uses the alternative name Lincoln. University buildings, towns and the Red River are later subjects.

George Catlin's images of Mandan villages and the Upper Missouri give these prints of North Dakota a powerful Indigenous history, with people, ceremonies, houses, painted robes and daily life across the northern Plains, seen through his nineteenth-century eyes. Some subjects reach into neighbouring tribal territories beyond the later state boundary. The maps, dated from the later nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, show county divisions, railways, highways and Indigenous land cessions, while earlier regional sheets show Dakota before separate statehood and Stanford uses the alternative name Lincoln. University buildings, towns and the Red River are later subjects.

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