Pennsylvania: Native trails and villages

Paul A. W. Wallace's 1965 map of the Indian paths of Pennsylvania (eastern sheet), georeferenced over today's roads. Rights clearance pending.

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Preview of Gallatin's tribes of North America, 1836

Gallatin's tribes of North America, 1836

Hon. Albert Gallatin; published by the American Antiquarian Society, Pendleton's Lithography, 1836 · about 100 km accuracy

Albert Gallatin's founding map of American ethnology, published by the American Antiquarian Society with his Synopsis of the Indian Tribes: the homelands of the continent's nations tinted by language family — Algonkin-Lenape, Iroquois, Cherokee, Muskogee, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Sioux, Blackfeet, Pawnee, Athapasca, Eskimaux — as of about 1600 along the Atlantic and about 1800 westward. A continental baseline: every state shows its nations here.

Source: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division · Rights: public domain

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Wallace’s 1965 map is presumed to be under copyright of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. This page builds only in preview mode until permission is on file.