Allotment Maps
- Reservations and Allotment Maps (Library of Congress)Part of: Native American Spaces: Cartographic Resources at the Library of Congress. Includes short description of Allotment Maps, 3 digitized maps, and citations for others.
- Digitized Allotment Maps (National Archives)Over 850 digitized Allotment Maps from the Department of the Interior - Office of Indian Affairs (RG 75). Select the High Resolution PDF (usually Image 2 for each item) to see full details.
- "Indian allotment map" (Library of Congress)Digitized allotment maps in the Library of Congress from a search for "Indian allotment map".
- Pine Ridge Land Information SystemThe Pine Ridge Land Information System (PRLIS) is a web-based land information system designed to assist members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe to access information about their lands and resources. Includes layers for: Parcel Layer (2010), County Plat Maps (2017), Original Allotment (1904), Bennett County Homestead Map (1910), Average Life Expectancy (2013), Historic Treaty Boundaries (1851, 1868, 1877, 1910), Range Units (2012), Badlands Bombing Range (1942), CDC Social Vulnerability Index (2014), Three Mile Buffer around major towns on Pine Ridge, and an 1862 map of the United States. Also includes links to Bureau of Land Management Patent Database.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994: Maps This link opens in a new window
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The Serial Set Maps collection is a collection of more than 70,000 maps printed as part of the Congressional Serial Set. Try searching using SUBJECT = "Indian lands".
Cession Maps
- Indigenous Digital Archive: Treaties ExplorerThe US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them for the first time with key historic works that provide context to the agreements made and the histories of our shared lands.
- Indian Claims Insight This link opens in a new window
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Includes historical claims presented to Congress or brought before the Court of Claims. Also includes records of the Indian Claims Commission including briefs, docket books, decisions, expert testimony, oral transcripts, and more.
- Native LandAn Indigenous-led project to outline the boundaries of Indigenous ancestral territories, languages, and Cessions in North America.
