Along the banks of the upper Missouri, he happened upon the civilization of the Mandan, a mysterious tribe whose members stood 6 feet tall and lived in bubble-shaped houses. He met with the Pawnee, Omaha, Cheyenne, and Blackfeet. He went up the Missouri to live with the Lakota Sioux. Catlin spent six years traveling thousands of miles throughout the Great Plains, covering more distance than Lewis and Clark to document the lives of 50 Native American tribes. It happened thanks to an adventurous artist and researcher named George Catlin. While Eastern cultures have regaled the wonders of nasal breathing for millennia, it wasn't until the 19th century that much of the Western population got wind of it.
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