George Catlin by Megan Fitzgerald https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e en-us 2021-12-13 13:21:23 UTC 2023-02-13 00:00:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Painting: mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944498660 This painting is by George Catlin and is titled "Ball Play (La Crosse)"]]> 2021-12-13 13:45:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944498660 Painting: mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944544259 This was painted by George Catlin in 1835 and is titled "Buffalo Hunters" ]]> 2021-12-13 14:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944544259 Bibliography mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944558090 2021-12-13 14:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944558090 George Catlin should be honored because he preserved the culture of Indigenous people during Westward Expansion through his paintings after realizing that their culture would be forever altered by colonization. mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944609319 -George went up and down the Missouri river painting Indigenous tribe leaders and their actions.

-George Catlin was persistent about sharing his Indigenous peoples gallery and after being rejected by American government he went to Europe and shared it there.

-He learned about the Native American tribes and shared them and their stories through lectures.

-George Catlin preserved Indigenous people's culture with his paintings and his paintings serve as a snapshot of history.]]> 2021-12-13 14:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944609319 Painting: mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944623206 George Catlin painted this in 1835-1837. It is titled "Bear Dance, Preparing for a Bear Hunt"

]]> 2021-12-13 14:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1944623206 George Catlin's art depicted the beauty of Indigenous people and how they respected the land and animals. mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949407108 -George Catlin was going into law but gave up and decided to do portrait paintings.

-George Catlin painted "Bear Dance, Preparing for a Bear Hunt" which is a prayer dance done by Indigenous people to ask for success while hunting. 

-George Catlin's painting "Buffalo Hunters" depicts how Indigenous people hunted the buffalo. They used every part of the buffalo and respected them.

- In "Ball Play (La Crosse)" by George Catlin portrays the acts of Indigenous people and the games they played. 

-George Catlin's "Jee-hé-o-hó-shah, Cannot Be Thrown Down, a Warrior" depicts an Indigenous tribe leader. George Catlin learned about Indigenous culture while painting this painting including the differences between the tribes.

-In "Wi-jun-jon. An Assinneboin Chief." by George Catlin it depicts Cheif Wi-jun-jon of the Assinneboin tribe. George learned about Wi-jun-jon's many battles and his many struggles while painting this.

-The painting "Sioux Indians on Snowshoes Lancing Buffalo" painted by George Catlin is describing the difference between hunting in the winter and hunting in the summer for Indigenous people.]]> 2021-12-15 13:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949407108 Painting: mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949464507  “Amongst those tribes who thus shave and ornament their heads, the crest is uniformly blood-red; and the upper part of the head, and generally a considerable part of the face, as red as they can possibly make it with vermilion. I found these people cutting off the hair with small scissors, which they purchase of the Fur Traders; and they told me that previous to getting scissors, they cut it away with their knives; and before they got knives, they were in the habit of burning it off with red-hot stones, which was a very slow and painful operation.” -George Catlin]]> 2021-12-15 14:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949464507 Painting: mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949515398 This painting was painted by George Catlin in 1846-1848 and is titled "Sioux Indians on Snowshoes Lancing Buffalo" “In the dead of the winters, which are very long and severely cold in this country, where horses cannot be brought into the chase with any avail, the Indian runs upon the surface of the snow by the aid of his snow shoes, which buoy him up, while the great weight of the buffaloes, sinks them down to the middle of their sides, and completely stopping their progress, ensures them certain and easy victims to the bow or lance of their pursuers.” -George Catlin]]> 2021-12-15 14:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949515398 Painting: mf28075 https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949586672 This was painted by George Catlin and is titled "Wi-jun-jon. An Assinneboin Chief."]]> 2021-12-15 14:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mf28075/1xc8zg3dc4w47f2e/wish/1949586672