Life Among the Indians

Life Among the Indias was written as a result of a demand for a book of facts on the character and condition of the American Indians. George Catlin (1796-1872) was an American painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Travelling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin was the first white man to depict Plains Indians in their native territory.

Contents:

The Indians of America

My Adventure With the First Indian I Ever Saw

How the Indians Build Their Wigwams

Indian Warfare — Scalps and Scalping

Medicine Men — "Drawing Fire From the Sun"

How the Indians Paint Themselves — The Prairies

Catching Wild Horses — A Buffalo Hunt

An Adventure With Bears

The Mandan Indians — The Chief's Tale

The Sioux Indians — A Challenge!

Pipe-stone Quarry — "The Thunder's Nest" — "Stone Man Medicine"

A Ride to the Camanchees — A False Alarm

A Solitary Bide on "Charley" Across the Prairies

A Journey Down the Orinoco — The "Handsome Dance"

En Route for the Amazon — The "Medicine Gun"

Rio Trombutas — Adventures With a Tiger and a Rattlesnake

Still en Route for the Amazon — An Adventure With Peccaries

On the Amazon

The Indians of the Amazon — Poisoned Arrows

Red Indians in London

Red Indians in Paris