Art: George Catlin's Indian Gallery

In the 1830s and 1840s, George Catlin journeyed throughout the American West documenting the transformation and destruction of Native American cultures, particularly of those forced to leave the southeast as of a result of the Indian Removal Act. Thirty-two of his paintings out of the more than 500 in the Smithsonian's collection are featured in this exhibit, including those of several prominent Mandan chiefs and General William Clark. <http://americanart.si.edu/>