Author: Royce, Charles C. (compiler).
Title: Indian land cessions. With an introduction by Cyrus Thomas.
Description: Washington, Goverment Printing Office, 1899. [477] pp. (= pages 521 - 997). 67 col. lithogr. maps. Orig. hardcover (publisher's blind stamped olive green cloth, lettered gilt to spine). 8vo. - Rebacked (orig. spine preserved); worn / sl. dam. along the extremities; stamp on the title page; small paper label on the spine.Complete original publication, published as extract from the 18th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This is a very rare copy of the separately published edition.- - This important standard work is a widely used atlas and chronology compiled by Charles C. Royce of Native American treaties with the U.S. government until 1896-97. Royce's maps are considered the foundation of cartographic testimony in Indian land claims litigation. The book was published in the Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Volume 18, Part 2. Cyrus Thomas wrote the extensive introduction explaining the legal framework and land acquisition policies of various imperial entities. - Royce was an employee of the Bureau of American Ethnology. In a column in Science about Royce's Cherokee researches, it was noted, The paper is an illustration of a work of wide scope undertaken by the bureau-a historical atlas of Indian affairs, showing upon a series of state and territorial maps, the boundaries of the various tracts of country which have from time to time been acquired through the medium of treaty stipulations or act of Congress from the several Indian tribes resident within the present territory of the United States. In 1902, the New York Times said the work is of paramount value not just to the special reader, but to the general public. [Source: Wikipedia].

Keywords: Cartography America Ethnography Native-Americans North-America America Cartografie Noord-Amerika Etnografie Indianen Noord-Amerika Noord-Amerika