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Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States government for the relocation of Native Americans who held original Indian title to their land as an independent nation-state.
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. This map of the northern Mississippi River basin shows Indian occupied lands, lands ceded to the federal government, and lands assigned to Indians removed from the eastern United States.
Indian Territory, originally “all of that part of the United States west of the Mississippi, and not within the States of Missouri and Louisiana, or the Territory of Arkansas.”. Never an organized territory, it was soon restricted to the present state of Oklahoma, excepting the panhandle and Greer.
Map of Indian Territory showing reservations, railroads, treaty lands, rivers, and Indian agencies.
On the website, users can type their city, state or ZIP code into a search bar to see which Indigenous communities reside or resided there. The tool includes an option to apply “settler labels ...
The documents featured here include maps of Indian Territory before and after enactment of the Dawes Act and two documents from the 21-page enrollment application of American humorist Will Rogers.
Look at a map of Native American territory today, and you'll see tiny islands of reservation and trust land engulfed by acres upon acres ceded by treaty or taken by force.
19th and 20th century Indian Territory maps. Search Inside this Collection. Other Search Options. Look In: Full Text. Search.
This map contains extensive cultural detail relating to the reservations composing Indian Territory. It has also been annotated to illustrate the boundaries of the formation of Oklahoma Territory within the Indian Territory.
Shows townships, military and Indian reservations, and mail service. Relief shown by hachures. Title from cover: Rand, McNally & Co's official map of the Indian Territory.