Living amongst the Indians of the American Plains, the painter George Caitlan captured the traditions and cultures of many different tribeswith his brush. Caitlan realized that Native American life was a vanishing one, and chose to immortalize it on canvas. It is because of him, that much of the rich culture of the Plains Tribes has been preserved today.
Caitlan was able to capture the danger and beauty of the buffalo hunt, as well as the many different methods for this activity.
Despite Caitlan's symphathetic veiw of Indians, he still could not see them through any other lens than that of the typical ethnocentric one that most White Europeans looked upon aboriginal Americans with. Like other Europeans, Caitlan stigmitized and immortalized the diabolic savage that Indians were so often characterized as.
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