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Photography by Dwight Primiano
Ten Potawatomi Chiefs
Photography by Dwight Primiano

Ten Potawatomi Chiefs

Artist (1810 - 1876)
Dateca. 1837
MediumOil on canvas mounted on board
Dimensions28 1/4 x 24 in. (71.8 x 61 cm)
Framed: 32 1/2 × 28 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.22
Accession number 2005.22
On View
On view
Provenanceby descent to Cable Gordon Ball [1904-1981] (Artist's great-grandson), IN; by bequest to Evelyn O. Ball (his wife), 1981; (Christie's, New York, NY), December 1, 2005, lot 98; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2005
Label TextIn July of 1837, George Winter witnessed the council meeting at Lake Kee-wau-nay (today Lake Bruce, Indiana), which was held prior to the forced migration of the Potawatomi and Miami tribes to Kansas. Winter may have used these studies of council members and spectators in development of a finished painting of the meeting.

While westward expansion provided opportunity for pioneers, it was devastating for Native peoples. In the 1830s, the US government forcibly removed American Indians from their homelands to designated territories in the Plains.

En julio de 1837, en el Lago Kee-wau-nay (hoy conocido como Lago Bruce, en Indiana), George Winter presenció una reunión del concilio, realizada antes de la emigración forzosa de las tribus Potawatomi y Miami hacia Kansas. Winter pudo haber usado estos estudios de los miembros del concilio y sus espectadores durante el desarrollo de una pintura final de la reunión.

Si bien es cierto que la expansión al oeste presentó oportunidades para los pioneros, también es cierto que fue devastadora para los pueblos nativos. Durante la década de 1830, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos ordenó la remoción forzosa de los indios norteamericanos de sus tierras natales y su reubicación en territorios designados en las Llanuras.
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