O-Cum-Who-Wast. [Yellow Wolf].

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• MEDIUM: Lithograph,

  DATE: c.1848.

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 8 3/4 x 5 3/8" (22.2 x 13.6 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: O-Cum-Who-Wast was a member of the Cheyennes, a migratory Native American tribe located on the Great Plains. He was noted as being "...a man of considerable influence, of enlarged views; and gifted with more foresight than any other man in his tribe. He frequently talks of the diminishing numbers of his people, and the decrease of the once abundant buffalo. He says that in a few years they will become extinct; and unless the Indians wish to pass away also, they will have to adopt the habits of the white people, using such measures to produce subsistence as will render them independent of the precarious reliance afforded by the game." - A quote from "House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 4"

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Western & Indian , Other