Perspectives on the United States
Native and Indigenous Americans
American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution: Glossary
American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution, 1750-1783: Assessments
American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution, 1750-1783: Primary Source Activities
Fort Laramie and the Dakota
The Colonization of the Black Hills in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Historic Maps and Documents
How can old maps help us understand the complexities of colonization in North America? What sorts of evidence do they offer? Does their distinct styling, framing, and content change how a particular landscape can be represented? Might these elements have in fact aided colonization in the Black Hills?
American Indians in an Age of Empire and Revolution, 1750-1783
Indians in the Archives
What do historical images of American Indian peoples tell us about the evolving relationships between Indians and non-Indians? What valuable information about our past and ourselves can we glean from artworks that portray indigenous peoples and also the materials that artists used?
Art of Conflict: Portraying American Indians, 1850–1900
How did U.S. and American Indian artists portray Indian peoples of the West in the late nineteenth century? What relationships exist between representations of American Indians in art and the histories of U.S. settlement?