Native American Presence on the Missouri

William de la Montagne Cary, A Chief Forbidding the Passage of a Train Through His Country, published in Harper's Weekly,. On loan from the collection of Eva and George Neubert.
William de la Montagne Cary, A Chief Forbidding the Passage of a Train Through His Country, published in Harper’s Weekly,. On loan from the collection of Eva and George Neubert and courtesy of Flatwater Folk Art Museum.

August 18 – November 1, 2015

On loan from the collection of Eva and George Neubert and courtesy of Flatwater Folk Art Museum, the exhibition’s 38 works illustrate the presence of Native Americans along the Missouri River in the mid to late 19th century. Etchings, steel engravings, lithographs, and woodblocks by Karl Bodmer, George Catlin, and William De La Montagne Cary, among other artists, are included along with various illustrations from newspaper publications and photographs by Frank Rinehart, the official photographer of the Indian Congress in Omaha at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition.