Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sioux Indian Council, Chiefs in Profound Deliberation
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1832-1837
“These people have no written laws, nor others, save the penalties affixed to certain crimes, by long-standing custom, or by the decisions of the chiefs in council, who form a sort of Court and Congress too, for the investigation of crimes, and transaction of the public business.” (Catlin, Letters and Notes, vol. 2, no. 58, 1841; reprint 1973)
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