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Primary Sources: Material Culture
Chest of drawers said to have been made in Green Bay, ca. 1825. Digital Public Library of America. Accessed April 20, 2021. http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wda/id/2919
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Earthenware jug, Whitewater, 1845-1867. Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database. Accessed April 18, 2021.http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wda/id/1277
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Primary Sources: Maps
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Barker, W. “N.W. Territory.” 1801. 1:8,750,000. William L. Clements Library Image Bank, Clements Library, University of Michigan. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-1001/wcl001095.
Carey, H.C., and I. Lea. “Geographical, Historical, And Statistical Map Of Illinois.” 1822. 1: 2,154,240. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps5194.html.
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Tennessee Virtual Archive. “Major General Andrew Jackson’s Official Report (with Map) to Tennessee Governor Willie Blount Following the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend,” 1814. https://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll33/id/252.
“Map of Galesburg.” 1836. Special Collections and Archives, Henry M. Seymour Library, Knox College, Galesburg, IL.
“Map of the Bounty Lands in Illinois Territory.” 1818. Map Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/a27a4770-994e-0134-2096-0050569601ca-e.
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Mitchell, Samuel Augustus. “Map of the States Of Ohio, Indiana & Illinois And Part Of Michigan Territory Compiled from the Latest Authorities.” 1: 2,060,000. Philadelphia, 1831. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/821v30.
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Primary Sources: Artwork
Barincou, J. Tenskwatawa “The Prophet.” 1835. Lithograph, 46.1 x 28.7cm. NPG.2001.92. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2001.92.
Bohrod, Aaron. “Breaking the Prairie, Log City 1837”, Galesburg Post Office. 1938. Mural. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galesburg,_Il_Post_Office_Mural,_Breaking_the_Prairie-Log_City-1837_by_Aaron_Bohrod_(RS).JPG.
Camp-Meeting. circa 1832. Lithograph, 31.75 x 46.99 cm. DL.60.2961. Harry T. Peters “America on Stone” Lithography Collection, National Museum of American History.
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Catlin, George. Kee-o-Kúk, The Watchful Fox, Chief of the Tribe. 1835. Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 60.9 cm. 1985.66.1. Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk73ab9218f-a1e5-497d-8807-46a955cd28ea.
———. Múk-a-Tah-Mish-o-Káh-Kaik, Black Hawk, Prominent Sac Chief. 1832. Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 60.9 cm. 1985.66.2. Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7193e09b6-c7e0-419a-a1d6-32d351914e10.
———. Na-Pów-Sa, Bear Traveling at Night, a Chief. 1830. Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 60.9 cm. 1985.66.238. Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7fbe89a0e-60e7-449e-b5b3-fb0edf593e0b.
———. Pah-Mee-Ców-Ee-Tah, Man Who Tracks, a Chief. 1830. Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 60.9 cm. 1985.66.251. Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk795834cbb-ab7a-49f9-bdf1-6a2c3357b701.
———. Shee-Náh-Wee. 1830. Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 60.9 cm. 1985.66.245. Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk772739e1d-9e4f-4fef-858a-ce9dce6fabf7.
Chapin, John Reuben, and W. Ridgway. Interview between Gen. Jackson & Weatherford. Circa 1859. Print. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2012645372/.
Chumash people. Basket Tray. circa 1780. Juncus rush, 10.5 x 41.5 cm. 23/7050. National Museum of the American Indian. http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws636e1cdd1-379f-4bb3-ae02-50cdc3893fe1.
Drawing of Battle of Fallen Timbers, 1794. n.d. Sketch. Allen County Public Library Digital Collections. http://contentdm.acpl.lib.in.us/digital/collection/coll6/id/5992.
Eastman, Seth. Gathering Wild Rice. 1849-1855. Watercolor, 15.88 × 22.23 cm. 2014.31.27. Minneapolis Institute of Art. https://collections.artsmia.org/art/36169/gathering-wild-rice-seth-eastman.
———. Hunting the Buffalo in Winter. 1850. Print. Nicollet County Historical Society. https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/nico:1612.
———. Mendota from Fort Snelling. 1848. Painting, 64.8 x 90.1 cm. AV2004.88. Minnesota Historical Society. http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10419293.
Forestier, Amédée. The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814. 1922. Oil on canvas, 71.4 x 102.0 cm. 1922.5.2. Smithsonian American Art Museum. https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/signing-treaty-ghent-christmas-eve-1814-8473.
Franca, Manuel Joachim de. Solomon White Roberts. 1835. Oil on canvas, 76.7 × 63.8 cm. NPG.92.101. National Portrait Gallery Collection. http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm495b843b9-66cc-4cc8-87fc-7dabb6c4ebce.
Hoffy, Alfred M. Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiah [i.e. Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak], or Black Hawk, a Saukie Brave. 1838. Lithograph, 33 x 23 cm. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1ac8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
King Andrew the First. 1833. Lithograph, 31.7 x 21.4 cm. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008661753/.
Lawrence Taliaferro. circa 1830. Painting, 138 x 122.5cm. AV1988.45.365. Minnesota Historical Society. http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display?irn=10186404.
Lewis, Henry. Battle of Bad Axe. 1857. Lithograph. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.13890649.
Lewis, James Otto. RICHARDVILLE; The Head Chief of the Miami Tribe of the Indians. 1835. Lithograph, 45.7 x 29.2 cm. 1973.167.42. Smithsonian American Art Museum. https://www.si.edu/object/richardville-head-chief-miami-tribe-indians-aboriginal-portfolio:saam_1973.167.42.
———. View of the Great Treaty Held at Prairie Du Chien. 1825. Lithograph, 44.5 x 29.2 cm. Wisconsin Historical Society Archives. https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM3142.
Nullification….Despotism. 1833. Lithograph. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8f4ae1d3-b464-3973-e040-e00a180607fe.
Staples, Owen. Portrait of Tecumtha (c. 1808). 1915. Print, 215 x 176 mm. JRR 3358 Cab. Toronto Reference Library. https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-JRR3358&R=DC-JRR3358.
Stuart, Gilbert. James Madison. circa 1821. Oil on wood, 65.3 x 54.3 cm. 1979.4.2. National Gallery of Art. https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.56914.html.
Tecumseh. 1817. Print, 11 x 8.9 cm. NPG.79.124. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.79.124.
Treaty with the Creeks. 1847. Print, 10 x 11 cm. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f712-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
Winter, George. Ash-Kum. n.d. George Winter Collection. Tippecanoe County Historical Association. https://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/digital/collection/gwinter/id/1001/rec/77.
———. Logansport Indiana, July 8, 1837 (Couple on White Horse; Second Man Leading Gray Horse). 1837. Watercolor, 12 x 18 cm. George Winter Collection. Tippecanoe County Historical Association. https://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/digital/collection/gwinter/id/945.
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Mann, Robert, and Terrance Martin. “Archaeological Excavations at the Ehler Site (12-Hu-1022): An Early 19th Century Miami Indian Habitation Site Near the Forks of the Wabash, Huntington County, Indiana.” Prepared For Indiana Department of Transportation, January 1996, Report No. 95TN0062-P3r01. https://www.in.gov/indot/files/Ehler%20Site%20(12HU1022)%20-%20Mann%201996%20-%20final%20public%20version.pdf.
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Anson, Bert. The Miami Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work. Oxford University Press, 1990.
Buley, R. Carlyle. The Old Northwest Pioneer Period 1815-1840. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1950.
Chapman, Charles C. History of Knox County, Illinois. Blakely, Brown, & Marsh Printers, 1878.
Clifton, James A. The Prairie People: Continuity and Change in Potawatomi Indian Culture 1665-1965. Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1977.
Davis, James Edward. Frontier Illinois. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Edmunds, R. David. The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978.
Elliott, Kate. Framing First Contact : From Catlin to Russell. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
Gibbon, Guy. The Dakota and Lakota Nations, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
Gibson, Arrell. The Kickapoo, Lords of the Middle Path. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1963.
Gue, Benjamin F.. History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. United States: Century History Company, 1903.
Knapp, Horace S. History of the Maumee Valley, Commencing with Its Occupation by the French in 1680. Toledo: Blade Publishing House, 1872.
Locke, Joseph, and Ben Wright. The American Yawp. Stanford University Press. Accessed May 27. 2021. https://www.americanyawp.com/.
Lossing, Benson John. Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869.
Low, John N. Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2016.
Morrissey, Robert Michael, Daniel K. Richter, Kathleen M. Brown, Max Cavitch, and David Waldstreicher. "Opportunists in the Borderlands." In Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Muelder, Hermann. Fighters for Freedom: A History of Anti-Slavery Activities of Men and Women Associated with Knox College. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Oliphant, Laurence. Minnesota and the Far West. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1855.
Vogel, Virgil J. Indian Place Names in Illinois. Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1963.
Mary Wingerd, North Country: The Making of Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Tribal Websites
Kiilloona Myaamiaki | Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. “History.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://miamination.com/node/11.
Peoria Tribe Of Indians of Oklahoma. “History.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://peoriatribe.com/history/.
Kansas Kickapoo Tribe. “History and Language Resources.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://www.ktik-nsn.gov/history/.
Hunter, Diane. “Treaty of 1838.” Aacimotaatiiyankwi (blog), April 2, 2021. https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2021/04/02/treaty-of-1838/.
Ironstrack, George. “A Brief History of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.” Aacimotaatiiyankwi (blog), February 15, 2012. https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2012/02/15/a-brief-history-of-the-miami-tribe-of-oklahoma/.
———. “A Myaamia Beginning.” Aacimotaatiiyankwi (blog), August 13, 2010. https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2010/08/13/a-myaamia-beginning/.
———. “The Mihši-Maalhsa Wars, Part II - The Battle of Kiihkayonki.” Aacimotaatiiyankwi (blog), March 31, 2014. https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2014/03/31/the-mihsi-maalhsa-wars-part-ii/.
———. “The Mihši-Maalhsa Wars, Part III - The Battle of the Wabash.” Aacimotaatiiyankwi (blog), May 19, 2014. https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2014/05/19/the-mihsi-maalhsa-wars-part-iii/.
———. “The Mihši-Maalhsa Wars, Part IV – The Battle of the Taawaawa Siipiiwi.” Aacimotaatiiyankwi (blog), January 1, 2016. https://aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2016/01/01/mihsi-maalhsa-wars-part-iv-the-battle-of-the-taawaawa-siipiiwi/.
Meskwaki Nation: Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. “Meskwaki: A Brief History.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://www.meskwaki.org/about-us/history/.
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. “Tribal History.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://www.pbpindiantribe.com/about/tribal-history/.
Newspaper Articles
Larson, Brett. “1837 Treaty: Small Document, Big Implications.” Mille Lacs Messenger, March 1, 2013. https://www.messagemedia.co/millelacs/news/tribal/1837-treaty-small-document-big-implications/article_f36aad3c-8030-11e2-acc3-001a4bcf6878.html.
Other Websites
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. “Belonging to the Oceti Sakowin Nation.” Accessed May 28, 2021. http://nmai.si.edu/nk360/plains-belonging-nation/oceti-sakowin.cshtml.
American Indian Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. “Dakota Language Program.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://cla.umn.edu/ais/undergraduate/dakota-ojibwe-language-programs/dakota-language-program.
Smithsonian American Art Museum. “George Catlin.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/george-catlin-782.
Milwaukee Public Museum. “History of the Mexican Kickapoo.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/anthropology/online-collections-research/mexican-kickapoo/history.
Knox College. “Knox College Timeline.” Accessed May 28, 2021. http://www.knox.edu/about-knox/our-history/perspectives-on-knox-history/timeline.
Relations: Dakota & Ojibwe Treaties. “Multinational Treaties at Prairie Du Chien.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://treatiesmatter.org/treaties/land/1825-1830-Multinational.
Knox College. “Prominent Figures in Local Anti-Slavery Movement - Underground Railroad Freedom Station.” Accessed May 28, 2021. http://www.knox.edu/about-knox/our-history/knox-and-galesburg-history/underground-railroad/prominent-figures.
The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. “Rev. Timothy Dwight, Jr.” Accessed May 28, 2021. https://caas.yale.edu/our-founders/rev-timothy-dwight-jr.
Museum Link Illinois. “The Illinois Country.” Accessed May 28, 2021. http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/ic.html.
Knox College. “The Origins of Knox College.” Accessed May 28, 2021. http://www.knox.edu/about-knox/our-history/perspectives-on-knox-history/origins-of-knox-college.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. “US-Dakota War of 1862.” Text. Accessed May 28, 2021. https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/us-dakota-war-1862.
Secondary Source Maps
Spanish Missions in California: Projection. 2015. Wikimedia. Accessed May 21, 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_secularization_act_of_1833#/media/File:SpanishMissionsinCA.p
Interviews
Owen Muelder, interview with Ryan Earles, April 23, 2021.
Dr. Kate Elliott, interview with Phoenix Haessler, May 22, 2021.