#american native

[yeesiine]

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

[tikkety-tok]

"Hanging out with the ancestors today"

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Shar-I-Tar-Ish

Artist: Henry Inman (American, 1801–1846)

Date: 1832

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Information

Between 1821 and 1828, Thomas L. McKenney, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, commissioned portraits of hundreds of American Indian leaders on diplomatic missions to Washington, D.C. Painted first by Charles Bird King and later duplicated by Henry Inman, these portraits were intended to serve as a “National Indian Gallery.” Over 120 were reproduced in McKenney’s three-volume portfolio, History of the Indian Tribes of North America.

Shar-I-Tar-Ish, a Pawnee chief, visited Washington, D.C. in 1821.

[punk-antisystem]

Campamento Pies Negros en Alberta (Canadá). Fotografía tomada por Arthur Rafton-Canning alrededor de 1910.

[american-denim-parano]

[driftinggivre]

The portrait post

[lobotomizedskull]