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The Reason of the Indian Outbreak, 1890.
Credit: Library of Congress
This late nineteenth-century political cartoon satirized the corruption of federal agents in charge of western Indian reservations. Pocketing most of the federal money targeted for these reservations, these agents doled out only "starvation rations" to Indians. Katharine Drexel was drawn to the plight of the reservation Indians during a trip west as a young woman.