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  • Collection: Native Americans

Indian Land for Sale.jpg
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…

Coming_of_the_White_Man_(1850)_by_Joshua_Shaw.jpg
A group of Native Americans view a ship with its sails for the first time.

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John smith and company bartering with Native Americans for food

Powell, De Soto.jpg
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…
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