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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Push-Ma-Ta-Ha, Chactan Warrior.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1833. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 11 1/2 x 8 inches. Sheet size: 18 7/8 x 13 1/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
This early impression of Pushmataha, published by E. C. Biddle, is a majestic portrait of the most charismatic of the Choctaw chiefs and a great orator, known as the "Eagle of the Choctaws".
Though Pushmataha ( ?1764 - 1824) fought along side Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans and in Jackson's war against the Creeks, he eloquently, if futilely, resisted a massive sale of Choctaw land negotiated by Jackson. Jackson nevertheless admired Pushmataha and said he was the bravest Indian he knew.
Push Ma Ta Ha with a Choctaw delegation visited Washington in 1824 during which visit C. B. King painted this portrait. It was at this time that he met Lafayette, whose famous visit coincided with his. He died within days of that meeting as a result, it was said, of overeating rich food, but probably from diphtheria. General Jackson was at his bedside when he died, acquiescing to his request for a twenty-one gun salute. He was buried with the honors of a brigadier general and given his salute. Jackson and many members of Congress attended. Pushmahata is buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Stum-Ma-Nu, a Flat-Head Boy
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 11 x 8 1/8 inches. Sheet size: 18 7/8 x 13 1/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Also known on the frontier as Soldier of the Oak, Le Soldat du Chene was a highly regarded Osage chief who was part of the delegation of Osage leaders that met with President Jefferson and Secretary of War Henry Dearborn in 1804 concerning the white settlers. While visiting Philadelphia on a tour of the eastern cities, the chief had his portrait painted, which was later given to the American Philosophical Society. It was this painting after which McKenney's portrait was engraved. The Osage, who are related to the Kansa, Quapaw and Ponca, and Omaha tribes, inhabited the Plains and Prairies region of the United States.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, Stamped With A National Character p. 24; Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
McIntosh, A Creek Chief.
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1836. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 16 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 19 5 /8 x 14 1/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
The son of a Creek mother and a Scottish father, William McIntosh (1775 - 1825) was a Creek leader and a United States ally who fought in the Battle of the Horseshoe Bend River (1814) and the First Seminole War (1817-18). In deliberate violation of the 1811 Broken Arrow Law prohibiting the sale of Creek territory, he sold a significant amount of his ancestral lands to the federal government in the treaties at Fort Jackson, Alabama (1814), Creek Agency, Georgia (1818), and Indian Springs, Georgia (1821). Without the consent of the Creek nation, the vast majority of which zealously opposed the treaty, he signed the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs, which ceded the Creek lands in Georgia to the U.S. The Creek Council condemned McIntosh for this defiant act, which divided the nation into two camps, McIntosh's supporters and his opponents. McIntosh was assassinated and his plantation burned by a force of 200 Creeks led by Menawa.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee, and Winnebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Chippeway Squaw & Child
Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph. . Image size (including text): 15 x 9 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 18 1/8 x 13 1/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
In addition to caring for their children, Chippewa women were expected to forage for food, prepare meals, and frequently participate in hunts, often carrying heavy burdens. McKenney's compassion for the hardships endured by Indian women is reflected in this sympathetic portrayal of a Chippewa squaw carrying a sleeping child on her back. The Chippewa (Ojibwa) were the most widespread and powerful tribe in the Great Lakes area and primarily inhabited the Northeastern region of North America.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winnebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, American Color Plate Books p. 24; Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Tish-Co-Han, A Delaware Chief
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Lithograph, drawn, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen after a portrait by Gustavus Hesselius. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 12 1/2 x 9 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' of the Delaware chief who signed the famous or infamous Walking Purchase. The Delaware, who called themselves the Leni-lenape, migrated to Ohio in the 1750s.
Tishcohan (or He Who Never Blackens Himself) was painted by Gustavus Hesselius at the request of the Penn family around 1735. In 1737, he was one of the Lenape defrauded in the Walking Purchase, in which the Penns' "walkers" were able to carve out a 1200 square mile property in a day and a half walk. When the Lenape tried to return their payment of buckskins to have their land back, they were naturally refused. The Delaware or Leni-lenape, departed for Ohio soon thereafter.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
[Black Hawk] Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kiah or Black Hawk, a Saukie Brave
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph. Very good condition. Image size (including text): 13 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
The son of the revered Chief Pyesa and a member of the Sauk Thunder clan, Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiah or Black Hawk was a prominent Fox leader and valiant warrior who fought for the British in the War of 1812. He is, however, primarily renowned for the significant war that bore his name, the Black Hawk War (1831-1832). Unlike fellow Sauk and Fox leaders like Keokuk, who relinquished much of their land in southern Illinois and agreed to resettle west of the Mississippi River at the 1831 council at Rock Island, Black Hawk strongly opposed the expansion of white settlers into his nation's territory and remained in his village of Saukenuk. After eventually being compelled to move across the Mississippi by the encroaching settlers and the Illinois militia, Black Hawk and his supporters secured several Winnebago allies and fought to reclaim his homeland. In 1832, Illinois governor John Reynolds, dispatched U.S. troops after the elusive Sauk chief, who was eventually captured at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien. In the aftermath of the war, Black Hawk, who was praised for his great courage, met President Andrew Jackson in Washington and after touring the eastern cities, settled on the Des Moines River. The Sauk tribe merged with the Fox tribe in the eighteenth century and inhabited the Great Lakes region of the United States.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1839, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, Stamped With A National Character p. 24; Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Lap-Pa-Win-Soe, A Delaware Chief
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Lithograph, printed and hand-colored. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 12 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' of one of the Delaware Indians who ruefully witnessed the famous Pennsylvania "Walking Purchase" of 1737.
Based upon a portrait done about 1735 that was given to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by William Penn's grandson in 1834, it is attributed to Gustavus Hesselius, the Swedish artist.
Lappawinsoe, a Delaware or Lenape chief, was party to the well-known Walking Purchase by which the Lenape lost 1200 square miles of excellent land at the hands of the Penn brothers.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Major Ridge, A Cherokee Chief.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Lithograph, hand-colored and printed by J. T. Bowen after a Charles Bird King portrait done in 1835. In excellent condition. . Image size (including text): 11 x 9 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' of an eminent Cherokee leader, who encouraged his people to adopt elements of white culture to preserve their homeland, and later accepted removal to Arkansas where he was killed by fellow Cherokees.
Major Ridge, Nunna Hidihi in Cherokee (c. 1770-1839) was a famous Cherokee orator, who, realizing its inevitability, encouraged his people to accept removal to Arkansas. He, his son, John, and Elias Boudinot, his nephew, were leaders of the Treaty Party. Once in Arkansas all three were killed by their opponents. The rank of Major was conferred by General Jackson during the Creek War (1813-14). On the other hand, it was Jackson who, as President, refused to enforce the Supreme Court's ruling upholding of the Cherokee claims to their property.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1839, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a, Johansen & Grinde, The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography; Horan, The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians, p. 266.
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Yoholo-Micco, a Creek Chief
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph, drawn and printed by J. T. Bowen. In excellent condition . Image size (including text): 13 7/8 x 11 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Yoholo Micco was a leading Creek orator and visited Washington with the Creek delegation in 1825-26, i.e. during the Adams administration. The delegation's mission was to protest the Indian Springs treaty of 1821. By this treaty and other concessions, McIntosh and his group had signed away nearly two thirds of the Creek nation's territory. The delegation failed to effect any change, and Yoholo Micco participated in his village's removal from Tallapoosa County, Alabama to Arkansas, dying so after in his 50th year.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1839, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, American Color Plate Books p. 24; Sabin 43410a; Horan 138.
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Rant-Che-Wai-Me, Female Flying Pigeon.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. . Image size (including text): 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
The devoted and audacious wife of the famous Iowa chief Mahaska, Flying Pigeon or Rant-Che-Wai-Me accompanied her husband, with his six other wives, on his 1824 trip to Washington to visit President Monroe. Upon her return, she organized a meeting of Iowa women to whom she recounted her trip to the White House. Of all Mahaska's wives, Flying Pigeon was his favorite, and she bore him a son, Mahaska the Younger, who would later become a respected Iowa chief. She was killed in a riding accident the following year. Young Mahaska is said to have recognized his mother's portrait, this image, in a visit to Washington years later by the fan in her hand.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Tshusick, an Ojibway Woman.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1836. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 14 1/4 x 10 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Claiming to have walked from Detroit through the wintry wilds after her husband's death, Tshusick appeared in Georgetown seeking the protection and guidance of First Lady Louisa Adams, whose sister, Harriet Boyd, she claimed to have known while working in the household of Lewis Cass, the governor of Michigan. She also expressed a wish to be baptised, which won the hearts of many. The Chippewa woman quickly became Mrs. Adams' social companion and the darling of Washington society, charming everyone she encountered with her fluency in French, flawless etiquette, and remarkable skill as a seamstress. A very handsome, petite woman, Tshusick was courted and seen around Washington with General Alexander Macomb, soon to be Chief of Staff. She was later baptised in Georgetown, escorted to the baptismal font by Thomas McKenney himself, and re-named Lucy Cornelia Barbour after the daughter and wife of the Secretary of War. Always somewhat skeptical of the authenticity of her story however, McKenney wrote to Governor Cass to verify her story. Mentioning to Tshusick that he had written Cass, she immediately made plans to depart. Her new friends poured lavish gifts upon her as she left. Sometime later, Cass's reply to McKenney arrived revealing that Tshusick's French husband was alive and working in the Governor's stables and that Tshusick was a well-known con woman. McKenney pursued her next time he visited the west, but he could never track her down. The Chippewa (Ojibwa) were the most widespread and powerful tribe in the Great Lakes area.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Ne-Sou-A Quoit, A Fox Chief.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 15 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 18 7/8 x 13 1/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
The son of the renowned chief Chemakasee, Nesouaquoit, or Bear in the Fork of a Tree, was a valiant warrior, accomplished hunter, and prominent Sauk and Fox chief, but mostly known for his vehement hatred of tobacco and alcohol. He was a self-appointed scourge of whiskey peddlars, destroying their barrels and chasing them out of the villages.
In 1815, his father, Chemakasee, who had supported the Americans in the War of 1812, signed a treaty, in which the Federal government agreed to pay his tribe an annuity. Despite the explicit terms of the treaty, the United States never sent any money. Years passed. Nesouaquoit became leading chief. Finally in 1835, he approached General William Clark in St. Louis for help. Clark agreed that the government had clearly violated the agreement, but claimed that he was unable to fund the chief's trip to Washington to further pursue the matter. Financed by a generous loan from a French moneylender in St. Louis (for which the tribe labored all winter to raise a collateral of furs), Nesouaquoit went to Washington in 1837 to address the President and the Secretary of War regarding the breach and to collect the promised money. Even though they acknowledged the legitimacy of his petition and guaranteed that the annuity would be paid, nothing was ever received. It was during his 1837 visit to Washington that the Sauk and Fox chief had his portrait painted. It is one of the more glorious depictions in the work, giving the viewer a close look at the fierce but completely calm warrior chief. .
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Young Ma-Has-Kah, Chief of the Ioways.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
The son of the famous Iowa chief Mahaskah and his favorite wife Flying Pigeon, Ma Has Kah the Younger was a beneficent Iowa chief and pacifist who, like his father, believed in the importance of maintaining harmony with the colonists.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1839, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Sha-Ha-Ka, A Mandan Chief
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837. Lithograph, printed and hand-colored by J. T. Bowen after a portrait by Saint-Memin in the American Philosophical Society. In excellent condition apart from faint off-setting in plate. Image size (including text): 10 x 7 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Shahaka, or Coyote (c. 1765 - c. 1810) was known to Lewis and Clark as Big White. He was a large, affable man, and unusually talkative, a trait despised by Native Americans generally. Chief of the "Lower Village" of Mandan on the Missouri in present day North Dakota, he won the friendship of Lewis, Clark and the rest of the expedition, and he was invited back to meet President Jefferson who entertained him at Monticello. During his visit to Philadelphia, Charles Balthasar Julien Febret de Saint-Mémin painted the chief's portrait, which was given to the American Philosophical Society, and it is from this that McKenney's portrait was made. Accused of being seduced by the white man's world and of fabricating tales, Shahaka's people were extremely uninterested in hearing his travel stories. He was killed in a battle with the Sioux a few years later.
Mckenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Sequoyah
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1837, possibly . Hand-coloured lithograph by John T. Bowen after a painting by Charles Bird King done in 1828.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Sequoyah (1776? - 1843) is one of the most prominent men of American history. Known locally as George Guess, he was the son of a mixed-breed named Gist, Guess or Guest, possibly Nathaniel Gist, Revolutionary soldier and trader, and a Cherokee woman, who brought him up closer to the Cherokees than to the whites. He was born near Fort Loudon, Tennessee. Sequoyah was from the start an inventive boy with an inquisitive mind. After achieving some success in agriculture, he sustained a leg injury that caused him to limp for the rest of his life. Sequoyah learned to be a silversmith, eventually excelling at that craft.
Around 1809, he began to develop the idea of a written language for the Cherokee. He worked on this for at least 12 years and developed a syllabary that is still in use, primarily in Cherokee language churches. Some doubters among his people were persuaded when Sequoyah was able to teach his daughter to read and write the new alphabet. By 1824, white missionaries had translated parts of the bible into this written Cherokee. The alphabet was used in the Cherokee Phoenix, a newspaper that appeared from 1828 to 1834. Sequoyah visited Washington in 1828, at which time McKenney arranged to have this portrait painted. He spent his last years looking for Cherokees who had traveled West during the Revolution. He died in Mexico in 1843.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, Stamped With A National Character 24; Sabin 43410a; Horan p. 264-266
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Mistippee
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Mistippee, was a Creek, the son of Yoholo Micco. According to McKenney, his name was a native mispronunciation of "Mister Ben", which became "Mistiben" and gradually "Mistippee." Benjamin was his given name, in honor of some white neighbors, and Mister, a sign of respect due to the prominence of his family. Beyond this, not much is known about this boy, who as an adult, married and was removed to a territory west of the Mississippi.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, Stamped With A National Character p. 24; Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Opothle Yaholo, a Creek Chief
Philadelphia: F. W. Grennough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph by J. T. Bowen after Charles Bird King's painting of 1825. Very good condition . Image size (including text): 15 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
A judicious and diplomatic Creek leader and spokesman, Opothleyaholo (c. 1798-1862 ), which means "Good Shouting Child", fought in the Creek War of 1813-14 under Red Eagle against General Jackson. Despite the entreaties and inducements of federal agents, he steadfastly refused to sell his ancestral homelands to the government and, like the majority of Creek nation, was a staunch opponent of William McIntosh and the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs. In 1826, he led a delegation to Washington to dispute the validity of the treaty, which was eventually nullified by President John Quincy Adams. This visit resulted in the Treaty of Washington, in which the Creeks were permitted to retain a portion of their land on the Alabama-Georgia border,though neither Georgia nor Alabama honored that treaty. Opothle Yaholo later accepted the inevitable under President Jackson and signed the Second Treaty of Washington in 1832, in which the Creek ceded part of their territory in Alabama to the United States in return for lands in the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. He and his followers remained faithful to the Union when the Civil War broke out, in opposition to a strong part of Confederate Cherokees. It was in an effort to escape from the white and Cherokee Confederates that he died in the winter of 1862 in Kansas.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans, and his warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as making a record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, Stamped With A National Character p. 24; Sabin 43410a; Horan,142; Johansen & Grinde, 272.
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Paddy-Carr, Creek Interpreter
Philadelphia: F. W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph by J. T. Bowen. Excellent condition . Image size (including text): 11 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
The son of a Creek mother and the Irish trader Tom Carr, Paddy Carr (1808 - c. 1840) is one of the most interesting figures in the Muskogee (Creeks is a white man's designation) history of the pre-Civil War era. He was raised as an orphan in the household of the Creek Indian Agent John Crowell, where he became fluent in English. At nineteen, he went as chief interpreter for the Creek delegation to Washington in 1826 to dispute the Indian Springs Treaty. Both his interpretive and diplomatic skills helped bring about the invalidation of Indian Springs and creation of a new Treaty of Washington, by which the Creeks were permitted to retain a portion of their land on the Alabama-Georgia border.
Having inherited a significant amount of land through marriage, Paddy Carr became a successful planter and trader, and a slave owner. In 1836, (when McKenney was beginning publication) he was a owner of a large plantation with a mansion, three attractive wives (one the daughter of William McIntosh) and perhaps 80 slaves. He also kept a stable of fine racehorses. A semi-accepted member of Alabama society, he was second in command of an mercenary Creek militia of 500 to 800 that fought with the U. S. Army in the Second Seminole War in 1836. Despite this service, he was soon compelled to leave the Chattahoochee Valley and go to Oklahoma in 1837, with the rest of the Creeks. His large household of wives, children and slaves made theno mention has been found regarding the racehorses. His beautiful mansion was confiscated.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. BAL 6934; cf. Bennett p.79; cf. Field 992; cf. Howes M129; cf. Lipperhiede Mc4; cf. Reese, American Color Plate Books 24; Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Petalesharoo. A Pawnee Brave.
Philadelphia: E. C. Biddle, 1836. Hand-coloured lithograph ny Lehman & Duval after Charles Bird King. In excellent condition. . Image size (including text): 13 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Petalesharo (Generous Chief) (c. 1797 - c. 1874) was a tall, handsome warrior of the Skidi Pawnees, who stood out among the other Indians by his appearance and because of a story told of him that illustrated both his courage and goodness: he saved a young female Comanche captive from being burned at the stake. It had been a practice among the Pawnee to kidnap young girls from other tribes and sacrifice them to the Sun God, much as the Aztecs had done. After this apparently, the Pawnee practice of human sacrifice was abandoned; Petalesharo's act being seen as the will of the Great Spirit.
Petalesharo was one of the 1821 visitors to Monroe's White House. During his visit, the story of his rescue was published and this added to his charismatic presence, made him a national hero. His visit provided in part the inspiration for McKenney's Indian Gallery. Petalesharo's portrait is thought to be the first representation in white America of a Plains Indian.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk, and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. McKenney and Hall saw their work as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath).
Cf. Howes M129; cf. Bennett 79; cf. Field 992; cf. Lipperheide Mc 4; cf. Reese American Color Plate Books 24; cf. Sabin 43410a
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 MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) and James HALL (1793-1868)
Ap-Pa-Noo-Se, Saukie Chief
Philadelphia: F.W. Greenough, 1838. Hand-coloured lithograph. In excellent condition. Image size (including text): 14 1/8 x 9 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 18 x 12 3/4 inches.
A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important [works] ever published on the American Indians' (Field),` a landmark in American culture' (Horan) and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life.
Admired for his intelligence, peacefulness and eloquence, Appanoose was a respected Sauk chief who travelled to Washington in 1837 as a member of the Sauk and Fox delegation that signed a treaty relinquishing their lands between the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers to the federal government and establishing a territorial boundary with the Sioux tribe. After the negotiations concluded, Appanoose embarked on a tour of the eastern cities with the other members of the delegation, during which they visited Cooke's Circus in Philadelphia, Faneuil Hall in Boston, and George Catlin's Indian Gallery in New York. In Boston, he remarked that in the oral history of the Sauks there was a time when the tribe was settled by the ocean. Subsequent research indicates that this is true.
Appanoose was one of the leaders who negotiated the move from western Illinois to Iowa (to what became Appanoose County). In 1842, he was involved in another removal to Kansas. This became his final resting place, but a source of sorrow for the Sauk. After this the tribe was splintered: some returned to Iowa, some moved to Mexico and some were placed in Oklahoma on a Sauk and Fox reservation.
McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America' has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portraits are largely based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Keokuk and Black Hawk. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by | | | |
