国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 11月26日 00時09分

Lawyer-turned-painter George Catlin most likely sketched this scene of a Sioux village during an 1835 visit to Fort Snelling in what is today Minnesota. Later, Catlin described how Fort Snelling occupied the "point of land between the Mississippi and the St. Peters [Minnesota] rivers." In his recollection, the fort was staffed with a "regiment of men placed here to keep the peace amongst the Sioux and Chippeways, who occupy the country about it, and also for the purpose of protecting the citizens on the frontier.”

Catlin's understanding of Fort Snelling and its role in the region differed greatly from the perspectives of the Black and Native American peoples who also lived in the land between the rivers in the early 1800s. To many Dakota people, the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers was and is considered to be their place of creation. It is known as Bdote, or "where two waters come together."

On our blog, historian Katrina Phillips uses key moments in Fort Snelling's long history—including the marriage of Dred Scott and Harriet Robinson, the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War, and the headquartering of buffalo soldiers—to explore the intertwined histories of Black and Native peoples in the Midwest. Click the link in our bio to read the post: https://s.si.edu/2QswQKC

🖼️: @americanart, George Catlin, "Sioux Village, Lake Calhoun, near Fort Snelling," 1835-1836

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