Officially Indian : symbols that define the United States /
From maps, monuments, and architectural features to stamps and currency, images of Native Americans have been used again and again on visual expressions of American national identity since before the country's founding. In this in-depth study, Cécile R. Ganteaume argues that these representati...
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Washington, DC :
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Colin G. Calloway
- Introduction: The world's oldest enduring republic
- Essays
- Tupinambas of coastal Brazil, 1505
- Title pages in America, 1592
- Allegory of America, 1662
- Amerique septentrionale divisee en ses principales parties, 1674
- Novi Belgii Novaque Anglia nec non partis Virginia tabula in locis emendata, 1685
- Rolls's best Virginia tobacco advertisement, 1700s
- A new map of the whole world with the trade winds according to ye latest and most exact observations, 1732
- A view of the obelisk erected under liberty-tree in Boston on the rejoicings for the repeal of the Stamp Act, 1766
- Liberty triumphant, or, The downfall of oppression, 1774
- Vignette for Royal American magazine, 1774
- Design proposal for the Great Seal of the United States, 1780
- A new map of North America with the West India islands : divided according to the preliminary articles of peace, signed at Versailles, 20, Jan. 1783
- Daniel Morgan Congressional Gold Medal, 1790
- U.S. Diplomatic Medal for Peace and Commerce, 1792
- George Washington Peace Medal, 1792
- William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, 1682, 1827
- Baptism of Pocahontas, 1839
- Cover of historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States, 1851-57
- Three-dollar gold coin, 1854-89
- Fourth Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Company E, Powhatan Troop flag, 1860-61
- Hiawatha Boat centerpiece, 1871
- Improved order of Red Men membership certificate, ca. 1889
- Monument to 42nd New York Volunteer Infantry, "Tammany" Regiment, 1891
- Four-cent Indian Hunting buffalo stamp, 1898
- The continents : America, 1903-07
- Indian chiefs headed by Geronimo, passing in review before President Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1905
- Indian-head half-eagle gold coin, 1909
- Dumbarton Bridge Kicking Bear sculpture, 1915
- Indian-head insignia used on Lafayette Escadrille biplanes, 1917
- World War I U.S. Marine Corps uniform items with Indian-head-and-star insignia, 1918-19
- Hollow Horn Bear fourteen-cent stamp, 1923
- President Calvin Coolidge wears an eagle-feather headdress, 1927
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inducted into the Boy Scouts Order of the Arrow, 1933
- Indian head nickel, 1935
- Pioneers in Kansas, 1935
- Breaking camp during wartime, 1938
- Golden Gate International Exposition poster, 1939
- U.S. Marine Corps War memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial), 1954
- MK 16 Zuni folding-fin aircraft rocket, 1957
- Vice President Richard M. Nixon and former chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes Carl Whitman Jr., 1960
- Unity, 1966
- AH-64 Apache helicopter, 1984
- Jim Thorpe thirty-two-cent stamp, 1998
- Sacagawea one-dollar coin, 2000
- U.S. Congressional Gold Medals, Code Talkers Recognition Act of 2008, 2013
- Sequoyah, 2013
- Afterword / Paul Chaat Smith