Native American Maps Collection, 1875-1972

Container List

Series 1: Warm Springs Indian Reservation, 1929-1959 Add to Shelf

Series I consists of maps of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation prepared and published by a variety of individuals and organizations. Of special note are detailed range type survey maps prepared in the 1938-1939 and 1956.

The 1929 map in folder 1 has been photographed; those images are available upon request. Maps in Box-folder 05.01 and 5.02 have been digitized and are available upon request.

Extent: 53 sheets

UnitID: Series I

Folder-Item 1.1: 1929 Add to Shelf

Drawn and compiled by E.H. Coulson; published by the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs; 1 inch = 1 mile. Depicts topography and major geographic features; roads, trails, and railroads; ranger stations and sawmills; and streams and swamps. Note on map indicates that the topographic and cultural data was obtained from field notes of a timber cruise and land classification conducted in 1922-1924 and 1926 under the direction of F.M. Wilkes.

This map has been photographed; those images are available upon request.

Box-Folder 5.1: Range Survey Warm Springs Indian Reservation Add to Shelf

Prepared by the Soil Conservation Service and the Indian Service. This range survey includes a legend, a summary of the full survey as well as summaries for each township, and 35 maps depicting the range types, rivers and drainages, major geographic features, and roads. The maps are hand-colored and are at a scale of 2 inches = 1 mile. The summary sheets provide acreages for different range types -- grass, meadow, weed, sagebrush, browse, timber, juniper, broad-leaved trees, and annuals -- and burned areas.

Maps in this folder have been digitized and are available upon request.

Extent: 35 maps

Box-Folder 5.2: Warm Springs Indian Reservation Add to Shelf

Maps in this folder have been digitized and are available upon request.

Item 1: Historical Map Warm Springs Indian Reservation, March 1949 Add to Shelf

Compiled by Ralph M. Shane and Ruby D. Leno. Drawn by Ralph M. Shane. Depicts historic trails and survey routes; includes historic notes.

Item 2: Historelief Map Warm Springs Indian Reservation, November 1949 Add to Shelf

Compiled by Ruby D. Leno and Ralph M. Shane. Drawn by Ralph M. Shane. Depicts historic trails and survey routes; includes historic notes.

Item 3: Warm Springs Indian Reservation, 1949 Add to Shelf

By Ralph M. Shane. Scale: 1 inch = 3.5 miles. Depicts roads; rivers and streams; and township, range, and section lines.

Item 4: Warm Springs Indian Reservation, 1956 Add to Shelf

Published by U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Portland Area Office; scale 1 inch = 2 miles. Depicts roads; rivers and stream; and township, range, and section lines.

Extent: 5 copies

Item 5: Warm Springs Indian Reservation, 1959 Add to Shelf

Published by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs; 1 inch = 2 miles. Map depicts roads; rivers and streams; and township, range, and section lines.

Item 6: Indian Service Road System, undated Add to Shelf

Published by United States Department of the Interior. Includes Indian Service roads and all other roads and highways within the Reservation. Depicts rivers and streams; major geographic features; and township, range, and section lines.

Extent: 2 copies

Item 7: Mt. Jefferson, Oregon, undated Add to Shelf

Published by the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region. Scale = 1:31,680. Map depicts roads; rivers and streams; and township, range, and section lines. The map was received prior to 1961, so was probably created in the 1950s.

Folder-Item 2.1: Range Type Survey Maps, 1956 Add to Shelf

These hand-drawn, colored maps depict range types as well as rivers and drainages, roads, railroads, and major geographic features. Section lines are marked on the maps; the scale is approximately 2 inches = 1 mile. The maps are marked with the last names of individuals that may have completed or compiled the surveys.

Extent: 4 sheets

Folder-Item 4.2: Indian Service Road System, 1958 Add to Shelf

Published by the United States Department of the Interior. Includes Indian Services roads (in red) and other roads and highways within the Reservation. Depicts rivers and streams; major geographic features; and township, range, and section lines.

Series 2: Tribes of Alaska and Adjoining Territory, 1875 Add to Shelf

Series II consists of one item, Map Showing the Distribution of the Tribes of Alaska and Adjoining Territory, compiled by W.H. Dall of the U.S. Coast Survey and published by the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region in volume 1 of Contributions to North American Ethnology. The color map is at a scale of approximately 1:3,000,000. The map shows the approximate areas over which the following tribes ranged: Tinneh Indians; Innuit Tribes; Aleuts; Asia Chukchis and America T'linkets; Nasse and Chimsyan Indians; and Haida or Kygahni. The map also depicts major rivers, geographic features, and villages.

UnitID: Series II

Folder-Item 3.1 Add to Shelf

Series 3: United States, 1948-1972 Add to Shelf

Series III consists of small-scale maps of the United States depicting the locations of Indian reservations.

Maps in Box-folder 05.03 have been digitized and are available upon request.

Extent: 10 maps

UnitID: Series III

Folder-Item 1.2: America's Indians - Then and Now, 1971 Add to Shelf

Published by C.S. Hammond and Company to accompany Scholastic Teacher Edition of Senior Scholastic, v. 99, no. 2, September 27, 1971. No scale.

Folder-Item 1.3: Indian Land Areas - General, 1971 Add to Shelf

Published by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs; scale 1:5,000,000. Inset includes Alaska. Verso has addresses of Bureau of Indian Affairs offices. The map depicts locations of Federal Indian Reservations, former reservations in Oklahoma, tourist complexes (existing and planned), state reservations, Indian groups without trust land, and federally terminated tribes and groups.

Folder-Item 1.4: Guide to Indian Reservation Areas, 1961 Add to Shelf

Map showing location of Indian reservation areas and principal highways leading to them; published by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Industrial Development. Approximate scale of 5 inches = 300 miles. An inset includes cultural areas in Alaska; Index and text on verso. Map depicts Indian Reservations and Allotment Areas and former Indian reservations.

Box-Folder 5.3: United States Add to Shelf

Maps in this folder have been digitized and are available upon request.

Item 1: Indian Reservations Under Federal Jurisdiction, 1948-1972 Add to Shelf

Map showing Indian reservations under federal jurisdiction, except Alaska; published by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Approximate scale of 0.5 inch = 75 miles. On verso: Culture areas and approximate location of American Indian tribes at time of publication as well as Indian tribes north of Mexico in about 1500. Includes maps issued in 1948, 1965, 1967, 1969 (2 copies),and 1972.

Extent: 6 sheets

Item 2: Map Showing Indian Reservations in the United States, 1957 Add to Shelf

A map of Indian reservations showing the type of Indian court system in existence: tribal, traditional, or Court of Indian Offenses. Published by U.S. Office of Indian Affairs. From the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Constitutional Rights of the American Indian Hearings, part 1. Approximate scale of 1 inch = 105 miles.