"Historical and Statistical Information respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States." Indian Country in the 1850s

Book with statistics and ethnological research on the Native Nations of the United States. The book was commissioned by Congress during the administration of Milard Fillmore. Adventurer and ethnographer Henry R. Schoolcraft worked on the report for the better part of a decade. The report included illustrations by army officer Seth Eastman, as well as maps of Native nations. The reports were finally published in 1857 during the Buchanan administration.

Image of a map from Historical and Statistical Information respecting the "History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States" written by Henry R. Schoolcraft and presented to the Buchanan administration in 1857. The image is of a map of the homelands of Native Peoples across the American west. The map is in color, with different hues representing the homelands of different Nations. However the locations of some nations are ommited, such as that of the Ponca Nation.