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Article Analysis-“Doomed to Perish”: George Catlin’s Depictions of the Mandan by Kathryn S.

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It can be argued that in “Doomed to Perish”:George Catlin’s Depictions of the Mandan”,

the author decided to undertake a comprehensive review of George Catlin, a portrait painter, as

well as, his works because she considered it as unfair that Catlin’s works that were in light of

C Indian political affairs have hardly been examined. The author does not seem to

understand the sense behind labeling Catlin as the part of the premier American ethnologists, yet

fail to have his artistic paintings of Missouri Indian group been reviewed within the scholarly

world (Hight, 1990).

In fact, the author considers the aforementioned turn of events as a great scholarly

omission. Within the article, Hight argues that similarly to other scholars of that era, Catlin

considered the Indians as a ‘vanishing race’ thus he should not be left when reviewing that

period’s scholars’ opinions about the Bill that had been introduced, them days, advocating for the

removal of Indians from Missouri.

In fact, Carlin had shifted to the West not for the purposes of rescuing the Indians but to

make paintings about them that would come to act as living monuments about them. It is for such

reason that Catlin came up with the renowned Mandan group paintings. In order to make the

paintings as real as possible, Catlin had to live within the Mandan villages, within the banks of

the Missouri River. It is absurd the manner in which, Catlin together with his peers considered

the Indians as doomed and bound to perish. Besides, it is clear that Catlin made the assumption

that his targeted audience, would not turn out as averse to the argument that the Indians, which

entail Mandan among others, were truly a disappearing race.

In order to prove that Catlin’s works about the Missouri Indian group are worth to be

reviewed within the scholarly arena, the author conducted what can be termed as a systematic

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Running head: ARTICLE ANALYSIS 1 Article Analysis-“Doomed to Perish”: George Catlin’s Depictions of the Mandan by Kathryn S. Hight Student Name: Institutional Affiliation: Date: ARTICLE ANALYSIS 2 It can be argued that in “Doomed to Perish”:George Catlin’s Depictions of the Mandan”, the author decided to undertake a comprehensive review of George Catlin, a portrait painter, as well as, his works because she considered it as unfair that Catlin’s works that were in light of 19th C Indian political affairs have hardly been examined. The author does not seem to understand the sense behind labeling Catlin as the part of the premier American ethnologists, yet fail to have his artistic paintings of Missouri Indian group been reviewed within the scholarly world (Hight, 1990). In fact, the author considers the aforementioned turn of events as a great scholarly omission. Within the article, Hight argues that similarly to other scholars of that era, Catlin considered the Indians as a ‘vanishing race’ thus he should not be left when reviewing that period’s scholars’ opinions about the Bill that had been introduced, them days, advocating for the removal of Indians from Missouri. In fact, Carlin had shifted to the West not for the purposes of rescuing the Indians but to make paintings about them that would come to act as living monuments about them. It is for such reason that Catlin came up with the renowned Mandan group paintings. In order to make the pa ...
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