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Source Description
America Transformed: Indiana Territory ("Land of Indians") was similarly carved out of the Northwest Territory in 1800. Published in 1817, a year after Indiana’s statehood, this map indicates that officials had divided the southern third of the state into counties and townships. Numerous tribal nations, including the Myaamiaki (Miami), Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Lenape (Delaware), Shawnee, and Neshnabé (Potawatomi) inhabited the region. The map identifies land cessions before 1817 with dashed lines. From the 1820s through the 1840s these tribal communities were forcibly relocated, most often to reservations in the Great Plains or to Canada.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
6t053p58m
label
Map of Indiana
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
6t053p58m
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of Indiana
description
America Transformed: Indiana Territory ("Land of Indians") was similarly carved out of the Northwest Territory in 1800. Published in 1817, a year after Indiana’s statehood, this map indicates that officials had divided the southern third of the state into counties and townships. Numerous tribal nations, including the Myaamiaki (Miami), Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Lenape (Delaware), Shawnee, and Neshnabé (Potawatomi) inhabited the region. The map identifies land cessions before 1817 with dashed lines. From the 1820s through the 1840s these tribal communities were forcibly relocated, most often to reservations in the Great Plains or to Canada.
date
["1817"]
year
1817
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_006294
creators
Melish, John, 1771-1822
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Indiana--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Indiana
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Indiana
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Philadelphia
publisher
John Melish & Saml. Harrison
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
40
schema:longitude
-86
extent
1 map : col. ; 45 x 34 cm.
notes
Relief shown pictorially.
Identifies counties in southern Indiana.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
6t053p58m
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
944f4bc83b72e32d