Native Americans in the American Revolution and New Republic
Seven Years’ War
European claims in North America, 1756 and 1763
Pontiac’s “Rebellion” (1763)
Proclamation of 1763
Paxton Boys, 1763-1764
(contemporary image of march on Philadelphia in January 1764;
1841 engraving of assault in Lancaster)
Fort Stanwix Treaty line, 1768
“The able Doctor or, America Swallowing the Bitter Draught” (1774)
Anon., “The Female Combatants,” January 26, 1776
John Sullivan’s campaign against the Iroquois, 1779
Revolution-era cartoon
Death of Jane McRae (1777)
John Vanderlyn, “Death of Jane McCrea” (1804)
Frances Slocum (the “Lost Sister of Wyoming”) at age 67
[Taken captive 1778; narrative pub. 4 times in 19th century]
Timothy Flint, Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone, the First Settler of
Kentucky (1833); Daniel Boone protects his family” (1874)
“Mad” Anthony Wayne and the Battle of Fallen Timbers
(1794)
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Joseph Brant/Thayendanega
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark’s journey
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (The Shawnee Prophet)
Andrew Jackson and the Battle for New Orleans (1814)
Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary
Samuel Worcester and John Marshall
Indian Removal
“British Warfare in 1812, 1837-38”
[American Antiquarian Society]
Edward Hicks, “Peaceable Kingdom” (c. 1834)
George Caleb Bingham, “Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers
through the Cumberland Gap” (1851-1852)
(Washington University Gallery of Art)
“Manner of Instructing the Indians,”
from William Apess, Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws
of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe (Boston, 1835)
[American Antiquarian Society]
George Catlin, “Pigeon’s Egg Head, going to and coming
from Washington”
Frontispiece to Eugene Ventromile, Ahiamihewintuhangan: The Prayer Song
(New York, 1858) [Boston Athenaeum]
“American Progress: Westward the Course of Empire”
Currier and Ives, c. 1867
Frederick Remington, Little Big Horn
Ghost Dance shirts, 1890
Arapahoe Ghost Dance (1900)
Wounded Knee, 1890