1877 Drawing Books by Howling Wolf and Zotom in the Braun Research Library
Seventy-one men and one woman—all American Indians—were imprisoned at Fort Marion, Florida, from 1875 to 1878. This included thirty-threeCheyenne, two Arapahos, nine Comanche, one Caddo, and twenty-seven Kiowa. Intent on assimilating these inmates into the “white” culture and believing that the government must “kill the Indian to save the man,” Richard Henry Pratt encouraged them … Read more
