After allotments for tribal land (to build schools, missions, or other administrative needs) were determined, the government sold additional reservation property to individual land buyers.
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This advertisement from the Department of the Interior, circa 1911, offers surplus Indian land for sale.
After allotments for tribal land (to build schools, missions, or other administrative needs) were determined, the government sold additional reservation property to individual land buyers.
The Elizabeth Waldo-Dentzel Collection
Elizabeth Waldo-Dentzel Studio
Northridge, California
Oil on canvas
25.25 × 36.375 in (64.1 × 92.4 cm)
National Park Service
Jamestown Colonial National Historical Park
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/pic6a.html
Painting, illustration
Dimensions unknown
As De Soto and his troops approach, the Native Americans in front of their tepees watch, and a chief holds out a peace pipe. In the foreground is a jumble of weapons and soldiers, suggesting the attack they had suffered shortly before. To the right, a monk prays as a crucifix is set in the ground.
]]>This dramatic and brilliantly colored canvas shows Spanish conqueror and explorer Hernando DeSoto, riding a white horse, the first European to view the Mississippi River, in 1541.
As De Soto and his troops approach, the Native Americans in front of their tepees watch, and a chief holds out a peace pipe. In the foreground is a jumble of weapons and soldiers, suggesting the attack they had suffered shortly before. To the right, a monk prays as a crucifix is set in the ground.
United States Capitol, Washington D.C.
Architect of the Capitol
http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/historic-rotunda-paintings/discovery-mississippi-by-de-soto
Oil painting on canvas
365.76 cm by 548.64 cm (144.00 in by 216.00 in)