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Title
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Selling the 'Noble Savage' Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843-1845
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Description
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This study is partly about the American artist George Catlin and his white contemporaries who promoted a mythical image of Native Americans for profit. Their story is relatively well known to historians and other scholars. The added dimension in this narrative is a group of Indians--the Iowas--the 'commodity' that Catlin and others peddled to the public. Article is illustrated with many of Catlin's paintings.
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Date
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2006
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Northeast Corner of Kansas Territory
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Description
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Map showing area immediately west of the Missouri River, in present-day Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth counties, Kansas. The right-hand side of the page is north. Map shows Indian lands, including the Iowa lands, Iowa Reserve, Sac and Fox lands recently ceded, Kickapoo Reserve, and "Half Breed lands" (i.e. Indians of mixed descent). Indicates many creeks and some towns (e.g. Fort Leavenworth, Atchison, Doniphan, Saint Joseph). The agency is indicated near Wolf River. Ink on lined paper, signed by Major Daniel Vanderslice, who served as Indian Agent from 1853 until Lincoln became President in 1861.
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Date
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1854
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Iowa
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Description
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Map of Iowa showing twenty counties in eastern Iowa, with the rest of the area depicted divided between the Sioux (mostly in present-day Minnesota), and Neutral Ground, Sauks and Foxes, Iowas and Pottawattamies.
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Date
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1840~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Iowa
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Description
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Map of Iowa showing thirty counties in eastern Iowa, with lands of Sauks and Foxes, Iowas, Pottawattamies indicated in the western sections.
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Date
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1846
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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The Genealogy & History of the White Cloud Family
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Description
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Photos, portraits, and biographical article about various members of the White Cloud family of Iowa Indians of the Saint Joseph, Missouri area since their emigration to the area in the 1700s and including events on the Nodaway River in the early 1800s, etc.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
