History of the United States I / Unit 10 USH1 1401 short lesson, about 20 seconds
George Catlin
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The idea
George Catlin's paintings depicted Native rituals as savage, reinforcing White viewers' disgust.
In practice
Catlin touring cities with his Indian Gallery in the late eighteen thirties without financial success.
Where people slip
He believed he was recording a disappearing people sympathetically, which is compatible with the effect his work had.
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