John Ridge, a Cherokee, 1870
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Thomas Loraine McKenney was a United States official who served as Superintendent of Indian Trade from 1816–1822. After the abolishment of the U.S. Indian Trade program in 1822, then Secretary of War John C. Calhoun created a position without legislation within the War Department entitled Superintendent of Indian Affairs (this later became part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs). McKenney was appointed to this position and held it from 1824-1830. McKenney was an advocate of the American Indian “civilization” program and became an avid promoter of Indian removal west of the Mississippi River. President Andrew Jackson dismissed McKenney from his position in 1830 when Jackson disagreed with his opinion that “the Indian was, in his intellectual and moral structure, our equal.” Most of the portraits in The History of the Indian Tribes of North America were painted by Charles Bird King (1785-1862) in Washington, D.C., during visits of Native delegations. Other artists are represented, including James Otto Lewis (1799-1858). James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text and Henry Inman (1801-1846) copied many of the original portraits for the publication. The work is one of the finest and most beautiful examples of hand-colored American lithography. It is one of the earliest collections of Native American portraits. Because most of the original portraits were destroyed in a fire in the Smithsonian Institution in 1865, these images form the only record of the individuals portrayed.
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John Ridge, a Cherokee, 1870
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