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Title
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SC149 Indian Territory Documents
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Description
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The Indian Territory Documents is an artificial collection that consists of items regarding financial and property transactions in Native American territories and agencies during the 1850s. Included in this collection are correspondence and promissory notes.
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Date
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1851/1857
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Map of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co.
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Description
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Map showing Oregon and Washington and small portions of adjacent states. Also includes the southern portion of Vancouver Island, area railroad lines, steamship lines, towns, roads, and Indian reservations. Printed at top and bottom of map: "The Northwest presents the greatest opportunities for settlers of any portion of Uncle Sam's domain. For grains, grasses, fruit, live stock and minerals the territory embraced in this map is unequalled."
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Date
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1880~
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Indian Tribes, Reservations and Settlements in the United States
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Description
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Map of the United States keyed to show reservations allotted in part, reservations allotted and open, and tribal lands, as well as colonies in Nevada and rancherias in California. Inset map of Alaska indicates tribal areas.
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Date
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1943
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Death at Jackson County's Doorstep: Potawatomi Trail of Death Crossed Jackson County
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Description
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Article describes the Potawatomi Indians and their forced removal from northern Indiana to eastern Kansas in the fall of 1838. Nearly 1,000 tribe members were forced to walk the Trail of Death from Indiana to Kansas with 42 dying along the way. The Potawatomi are members of the Algonquian family of North American Indians. "Most of the Trail of Death descendants are members of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation with headquarters in Shawnee, Oklahoma." Includes images and diary entries.
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Date
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2007
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Northeast Corner of Kansas Territory
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Description
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Map showing area immediately west of the Missouri River, in present-day Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth counties, Kansas. The right-hand side of the page is north. Map shows Indian lands, including the Iowa lands, Iowa Reserve, Sac and Fox lands recently ceded, Kickapoo Reserve, and "Half Breed lands" (i.e. Indians of mixed descent). Indicates many creeks and some towns (e.g. Fort Leavenworth, Atchison, Doniphan, Saint Joseph). The agency is indicated near Wolf River. Ink on lined paper, signed by Major Daniel Vanderslice, who served as Indian Agent from 1853 until Lincoln became President in 1861.
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Date
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1854
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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U. States' Indian Frontier in 1840, Shewing [sic] Positions of the Tribes that have been removed west of the Mississippi
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Description
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Map of areas assigned to various tribes just west of the states of Missouri and Arkansas as of approximately 1840. Approximate locations of other tribes in the West (U.S. and a portion of Canada) are indicated. Some of the tribes named in the map are Kickapoo, Shawnee, Delaware, Peoria and Kaskaskia, Piankashaw and Wea, Oneida, Tuscarora, Quapaw, Seneca, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Osage, Arapaho, Comanche, Pawnee, Kiowa, Shoshone, Cheyenne, Crow, Dakota, Omaha and Oto, Sac and Fox.
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Date
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1841
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Structure Map of Northeastern Oklahoma
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Description
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"Prepared by the Oklahoma Geological Survey." Shows topography of northeastern Oklahoma, Osage Indian Reservation, and county lines.
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Gunn's New Map of Kansas and the Gold Mines
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Description
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Map of Kansas and the area to become Colorado, showing the existing counties of Kansas and Indian reservations. Includes inset "Routes from the Missouri River to the Kansas Gold Mines." Compiled from the original field notes by O. B. Gunn.
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Date
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1859
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Object Type
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Map