Native American Cree Indian Chief, 1830s

MCIhsette Kuiuab, Cree Indian Chief. The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations in North America, with over 200, 000 members living in Canada. In the United States, this Algonquian-speaking people historically lived from Lake Superior westward. As hunter-gatherers, the basic unit of organization for Cree peoples was the lodge, a group of perhaps eight or a dozen people, usually the families of two separate but related married couples, who lived together in the same wigwam or tipi, and the band, a group of lodges who moved and hunted together. Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Amerique du Nord, execute pendant les annees 1832-34. Karl Bodmer (February 11, 1809 - October 30, 1893) was a Swiss printmaker, lithographer, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied on his Missouri River expedition. Bodmer was hired as an artist to record images of cities, rivers, towns and peoples they saw along the way, including the many tribes of Native Americans along the Missouri River and in that region

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LOC/Rare Books Selections/Science Source/Mary Evans