Indian Land Cessions (or Going, Going, …)

by The Cultural Devision | posted in: Maps, The Cultural Devision | 0

It plays out the same way every time…

To take a closer look, try the set of 67 maps collected in part two of the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-97.

[Animated gif by Somersaultr via Chart Porn]

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