Catlin Was Not the First but Perhaps the Last To Believe the Mandans Were Welsh Indians

The ‘theory’ had bolstered the British position in North America. Painter and author George Catlin loved Indians, and he loved the Mandans, but he wasn’t quite sure the Mandans were Indians. In his Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians, published in two volumes in 1841–42, the well-traveled Catlin …

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