American Indian Landscapes

Where do Indians live in the Unites States? See a county-based map and a map of Indian reservations. Watch the expansion of white settlement across the USA: the spread of counties, spread of states, and the spread of population. Listen to Buffy Sainte-Marie sing what happened to the Indians.

Explore various aspects of Native American cultures and the interaction with the invading European cultures that created the distinctive cultural landscapes of the American Indians:
1) original Indian cultural areas and 
2) U.S. Indian Government Policies and their Impact on Reservation Landscapes
[table] Read what the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs said at the 175th anniversary of the establishment of the Bureau.
Examine the spatial expansion of U.S. land hegemony and the retreat of Indian lands.
Great Plains Indians: Southwest Indians:
South Dakota reservations Mesa Verde National Park
Eastern Woodland Indians: Taos agriculture
Wisconsin reservations
   
(Midwest Treaty Network)
Hopi Navajo
  Pueblo Indians


Additional option materials:
1) Indian casinos in California
2) Law suit about the BIA's mismanagement of the Individual Indian Money accounts
3) A web site: Native Americans. For other Indian sites, search Google.com.
4) Read about Cheyenne River reservation in South Dakota and "buffalo tourism."
5) Read how syphilis actually spread from the "New World" to the "Old World."
 

 

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 June 1996; last revised on 31 January 2008.