Anonymous asked: Hey, we just got a grant to educate people on the Doctrine of Discovery and were wanting to create this type of educational piece. Can we get your approval to use it? Yours is really good.

I’m catching up on my inbox so I’m sorry if this is totally irrelevant now, but:

To you, anon, and to anyone else who wants to use my gif of Native American land loss:

I think it’s totally awesome that people want to use the map as an educational tool and I’d definitely give you permission to use it but… I don’t actually own the rights to it! The original map belongs to Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University, who died in 2011. I just rearranged it with Photoshop, so Dr. Hilliard would be the one to credit as the map creator. And I guess you could contact LSU if you’d like official permission to use it.

But yeah, as far as I’m concerned, knock yourselves out. I made the gif in order to educate myself and others, so I figure the more people see it, the better.

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This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day.  Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like “blah blah million acres” wasn’t really doing it for me.  The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here.

For those who do prefer dealing in numbers, here are some:

By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s.

By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size.

—In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk

* The General Allotment Act is also known as the Dawes Act.

Edit: Got rid of some of the fold lines and discoloration on the gif.  *is anal*

Edit 2: I can’t believe I didn’t think to mention this until now, but the “Present Day” map is actually from c. 1972. You can find a more recent map of Indian Reservations here, although as you can see, things haven’t changed much.

2 years ago  9,384 notes

Anonymous asked: Hey, we just got a grant to educate people on the Doctrine of Discovery and were wanting to create this type of educational piece. Can we get your approval to use it? Yours is really good.

I’m catching up on my inbox so I’m sorry if this is totally irrelevant now, but:

To you, anon, and to anyone else who wants to use my gif of Native American land loss:

I think it’s totally awesome that people want to use the map as an educational tool and I’d definitely give you permission to use it but… I don’t actually own the rights to it! The original map belongs to Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University, who died in 2011. I just rearranged it with Photoshop, so Dr. Hilliard would be the one to credit as the map creator. And I guess you could contact LSU if you’d like official permission to use it.

But yeah, as far as I’m concerned, knock yourselves out. I made the gif in order to educate myself and others, so I figure the more people see it, the better.

This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day.  Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like “blah blah million acres” wasn’t really doing it for me.  The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here. For those who do prefer dealing in numbers, here are some: By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s. By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size. —In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk * The General Allotment Act is also known as the Dawes Act. Edit: Got rid of some of the fold lines and discoloration on the gif.  *is anal* Edit 2: I can’t believe I didn’t think to mention this until now, but the “Present Day” map is actually from c. 1972. You can find a more recent map of Indian Reservations here, although as you can see, things haven’t changed much.

This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day.  Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like “blah blah million acres” wasn’t really doing it for me.  The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here.

For those who do prefer dealing in numbers, here are some:

By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s.

By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size.

—In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk

* The General Allotment Act is also known as the Dawes Act.

Edit: Got rid of some of the fold lines and discoloration on the gif.  *is anal*

Edit 2: I can’t believe I didn’t think to mention this until now, but the “Present Day” map is actually from c. 1972. You can find a more recent map of Indian Reservations here, although as you can see, things haven’t changed much.

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