Week Three

Title

Week Three

Description

Maps for Week Three

Date

September 4, 2018

Contributor

Profs Campbell and Jakacki

Items in the Week Three Collection

Turtle Island in Mohawk, The Decolonial Atlas (2015)
Indigenous reclaiming/naming of the territories of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy

Map of Virginia c. 1610
A manuscript map of Virginia dating from the earliest period of English settlement in America.
The territory depicted extends from the rivers of Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, northwards to Cape Henry, Virginia, then around the entire extent of…

Reduction de la Carte Tracée par le Sauvage Ochagach (1754)
Full title: Reduction de la Carte Tracée par le Sauvage Ochagach et autres, laquelle a donne lieu aux Decouvertes de Officiers Francois representées sans la Carte cy jointe [and] Carte Physique des Terreins les plus eleves de la Partie Orientale du…

The Toronto Purchase (1805 indenture)
A plan of the 1805 revision [Crown Treaty no. 13] of the land acquired from the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation.

Note "maple tree" as marker in southwest corner.

"Purchases from the Indians in 1787"
Full title: "Purchases from the Indians in 1787, the Mohawks land and boundary of the lands of the Mississauga Indians"

The "Toronto Purchase" of 1787 in which the British acquired land from the Mississauga of the New Credit.

Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina (Cawtaba Deerskin Map)
This map describing the scituation [sic] of the several nations of Indians to the NW of South Carolina was coppyed [sic] from a draught drawn & painted on a deer skin by an Indian Cacique and presented to Francis Nicholson Esqr. Governor of South…

A Map of the Country of the Five Nations, belonging to the Province of New York; and of the Lakes near ...
Map of the Great Lakes and northern New York. Includes the Hudson and Saint Lawrence Rivers and Maryland. Cartographic elements include compass rose, degrees of latitude and longitude, scale, names of bodies of water, locations of mountain ranges and…

Carte que les Gnacsitares ont Dessiné sur des peaux de Cerfs ...
Map of the western Great Lakes and land west to the Rocky Mountains. Cartographic elements include scale, degrees of latitude and longitude, location of native American settlements and European forts. Includes illustration of dwellings, canoes, and…

[Map of eastern North America]
Map of eastern North America from Canada to the Carolinas. Includes inset map of Newfoundland. Cartographic elements include compass rose and locations of rivers and capes. Scattered over the map are scenes of native Americans roasting a person…

A Mapp of New Jersey in America<br /><br /> (probably reprint/redesign of the map of New Jarsey, 1672)
Map of New Jersey. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude, sea banks, soundings, compass rose, scale, some topographical details, location of boundary between East and West Jersey, native American settlements and rivers. Decorative inset…

A Mapp of New Jarsey
Map of New Jersey with inset view of New York City. Cartographic elements include scales, compass rose, rhumb lines, location of sea banks or shoals, and soundings. Also includes native American settlements or fortifications, dwellings, canoes,…

Tribal Nations Map
This map represents the original pre-contact homelands of the hundreds of tribal nations that existed across what is now Canada and the "lower 48" of the United States.

Map of NJ fight for Delaware in 1777
Camden was drawn in pen and ink but this is during the American Revolution and the map is unfinished at this point in time

Map showing Indian Land &amp;c. 1772
Scale ca. 1:200,000. Title from verso annotation. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows the boundary of "The lands [in Georgia] which the Cherokees have assigned for payments of their debts." "Col. off. 5. vol. 73, pp. 321-322. Old A.W.I.…

Navajo Nation 2017
A map identifying different counties in Navajo Nation.

A new map of the United States with the additional territories : on an improved plan, exhibiting a view of the Rocky Mountains surveyed by a company of Winebago [i.e. Winnebago] Indians in 1828.
At lower right: "Atlantic Souvenir for 1829." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Bernard J. Shapero Books (London) Acquisitions control no. 2007-228

Map of Colorado Territory
Hand col. lithographic map. Counties in full color. Ornamental border. Relief shown by hachures. Shows public land survey system townships. Cover in embossed brown cloth with gold stamping: Topographical map of Colorado. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.…

An Indian map of the Upper-Missouri, 1801
A map of the Missouri River waterways along with transcribed notes from a hunter. The mapmaker used pen-and-ink and watercolor and was copied from a map in the London archives of the Hudson Bay Company.

Florida et Apalche
Uncolored engraved double page map of Florida and the Southeast Coast of North America, part of Cuba and Bahamas. Shows cities, towns, landmarks, rivers, forests and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative title cartouche.

A new map of Iowa : accompanied with notes by W. Barrows
Also shows territory occupied by Native American tribes. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Includes ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Mounted on cloth, mounted on paper. LC copy imperfect:…