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Catherine Weldon:
[narrated excerpt from a letter]
'Recently, I visited an exhibition of George Catlin paintings of American Indians and my breath was taken away. It was the freedom that struck me. Even inside the paintings, the people were free.'
[narrated excerpt from a letter]
'Recently, I visited an exhibition of George Catlin paintings of American Indians and my breath was taken away. It was the freedom that struck me. Even inside the paintings, the people were free.'
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Recently I visited an exhibition
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of George cat in paintings of American Indians
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and my breath was taken away
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It was the freedom that struck me
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Even inside the paintings the people were free
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Movie Summary
Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
