What was the Mandan and Welsh language connection theorized by George Catlin?
George Catlin was a painter of Native American tribes who lived with, observed and painted the Mandan tribe during the 19th century. He is quoted as saying, “A stranger in the Mandan village is first struck with the different shades of complexion, and various colors of hair which he sees in a crowd about him, and is almost disposed to exclaim that these are not Indians … They have a most pleasing symmetry and proportion of features, with hazel, gray and blue eyes.” James G. Perry writes, “The Welsh Prince Madoc … sailed to America 300 years before Columbus in 1170 … and landed at Mobile Bay, Alabama. Early explorers and pioneers have found evidences of the Welsh influence along the Tennessee and Missouri Rivers, among certain tribes of Indians. There is no record that the Prince ever returned to the land of his birth. Peculiar things have been found in America. It is there are Welsh speaking Indians up the Missouri River called the White Indians. Also, they fish with coracles, an
