Browse Items (24 total)

Karonhí:io Delaronde and Jordan Engel, Turtle Island in Mohawk, The Decolonial Atlas (2015), The Decolonial Atlas, 2015

Indigenous reclaiming/naming of the territories of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy

Tags: Colonization, Indigenous, Iroquoian

George Percy (possible), Map of Virginia c. 1610, 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…

Tags: Indigenous, seventeenth century, Virginia

Phillipe Buache, Reduction de la Carte Tracée par le Sauvage Ochagach (1754), 1753-55

Full title: Reduction de la Carte Tracée par le Sauvage Ochagach et autres, laquelle a donne lieu aux Decouvertes de Officiers Francois representées…

Tags: eighteenth century, French America, Indigenous, western interior

Unknown, The Toronto Purchase (1805 indenture), 1805

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…

Tags: Canada, Indigenous, nineteenth century, survey

Sir David William Smith, "Purchases from the Indians in 1787", 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…

Tags: British, Canada, eighteenth century, Indigenous, Ontario, Toronto

Francis Nicholson, Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina (Cawtaba Deerskin Map), 1724/1900

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 &…

Cadwallader Colden, A Map of the Country of the Five Nations, belonging to the Province of New York; and of the Lakes near ..., 1747

Map of the Great Lakes and northern New York. Includes the Hudson and Saint Lawrence Rivers and Maryland. Cartographic elements include compass rose,…

Tags: 18th century, Canada, First Nations, Five Nations, New York, Pennsylvania

M. le baron de Lahontan, Carte que les Gnacsitares ont Dessiné sur des peaux de Cerfs ..., 1703

Map of the western Great Lakes and land west to the Rocky Mountains. Cartographic elements include scale, degrees of latitude and longitude, location…

Tags: 18th century, Canada, First Nations

Nathaniel Crouch (a.k.a. Robert Burton), [Map of eastern North America], 1685

Map of eastern North America from Canada to the Carolinas. Includes inset map of Newfoundland. Cartographic elements include compass rose and…

Tags: 17th century

A Mapp of New Jersey in America
(probably reprint/redesign of the map of New Jarsey, 1672), 1678

Map of New Jersey. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude, sea banks, soundings, compass rose, scale, some topographical details, location…

Tags: 17th century, English, New Jersey

John Seller, A Mapp of New Jarsey, 1672

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,…

Tags: English, New Jersey, seventeenth century

Aaron Carapella, 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…

Library of Congress, Map of NJ fight for Delaware in 1777, 1777 but not 100%

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 &c. 1772, 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…

Navajo Land Department, Navajo Nation 2017, 2017

A map identifying different counties in Navajo Nation.

Tags: indian, Indigenous, nation, Navajo, navajo nation

Imbert, Anthony, 1794 or 1795-1834., 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., 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…

Tags: Indians of North America, maps, Territorial Expansion

Ebert, Frederick J, Map of Colorado Territory, 1870

Hand col. lithographic map. Counties in full color. Ornamental border. Relief shown by hachures. Shows public land survey system townships. Cover in…

J.G. Kohl, An Indian map of the Upper-Missouri, 1801, 1850

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…

Francois Fabri, Florida et Apalche, 1597

Uncolored engraved double page map of Florida and the Southeast Coast of North America, part of Cuba and Bahamas. Shows cities, towns, landmarks,…

Tags: 1500s, Native American, Pre colonial

Cincinnati : Engraved & published by Doolittle & Munson,, A new map of Iowa : accompanied with notes by W. Barrows, 1845

Also shows territory occupied by Native American tribes. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Includes ill. Available also through the…