Cree Indian Warrior, Fort Pitt, 1846
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Cree Indian Warrior, Fort Pitt, 1846
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Otisskun (the Horn), Cree warrior, Fort Pitt. The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations in North America. Fort Pitt was a fort built in 1830 by the Hudson's Bay Company that also served as a trading post on the North Saskatchewan River in Canada. Fort Pitt was built where the territories of the Cree, Assiniboine and Blackfoot converged. Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 - February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and in the Columbia District. A self-educated artist, Kane trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. The first trip (1845) took him from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie and back. He set out on a second voyage (1846-48) from Toronto across the Rocky Mountains to Fort Vancouver and Fort Victoria. Kane produced more than 100 oil paintings, although he often embellished them, departing from the accuracy of his field sketches in favor of more dramatic scenes.
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