Historians of the Tribe

Art Institute of Chicago

Historians of the Tribe

Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909)

Date
1890–99
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
New York
Department
Arts of the Americas
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Executed around 1890, the year when the massacre at Wounded Knee effectively ended the army’s conflict with the Plains Indians, Historians of the Tribe clearly situates the glories of Native Americans in the past. In a tightly defined, darkened interior, watched over by a tribal elder in the central background, five men—their postures slumped or languid in surrender—record and reread their hieroglyphic history. At the moment of their defeat, Remington chose to depict his Native American subjects with a certain sentimentality.

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