The United States Capitol artwork forms a visual narrative that
reveals how the artists, and the Federal Government who
commissioned them, envisioned America. In the nineteenth-century,  this artwork included iconography lauding expansionism and Manifest  Destiny. Often American Indians, commonly displaced by rapid expansionism westward, were worked into Capitol paintings, friezes, and sculptures as either Noble Savages, doomed to a sad but  necessary extinction, or Ignoble Savages, whose hostility doomed  them to a swift and justified extinction. The art of the Capitol forms a text which delineates, among other things, the dominant class's approach towards race relations in the nineteenth century.

The Native who is in a position of supplication to the noble  European...

FOR EXAMPLE:

Landing of the Pilgrims
by Enrico Causici, 1825. Sandstone. U.S. Capitol
                        Rotunda, above east door.