The term Catlinite came into use after the American painter George Catlin visited the quarries in Minnesota in 1835; but it was Philander Prescott who first wrote about the rock in 1832, noting that evidence indicated that American Indians had been using the quarries since at least as far back as 1637.
During his life on the frontier he served as a government interpreter of the Dakota language (including for the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux).
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