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Friar raising a cross before a waterfall, with Native American figures seated nearby and a canoe on the shore.

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Father Hennepin Discovering the Falls of St. Anthony, Douglas Volk, Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A friar in a brown habit raises a crucifix toward the sky beside a broad waterfall and churning river. Several seated and kneeling Native American figures, one holding a rifle and another beside a birch-bark canoe, listen in the foreground while a woman carrying a bundle stands at the right.

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