George Catlin

<p>George Catlin painted a moving portrait of friend Joseph Chadwick just before his friend's untimely death in the Texas Revolution</p>

<p>The artist knew that the Native Americans could not maintain their culture in the face of the white man's expansion across the continent.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In words and pictures, George Catlin recorded the secret ceremony, a blend of mysticism and horrific cruelty, by which the Mandans initiated their braves and conjured the life-sustaining buffalo.</span> </span></p>