The controversial painting shows a Dakota lifting an enemy’s scalp. Seth Eastman was a cartographer who taught mapmaking at West Point, while his own career was all over the map. Eastman was an expert on the Dakotas and other Indian tribes, but he abandoned his Indian wife, whose descendants through their only daughter were among …
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