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Map showing Indian Reservations in the United States West of the 84th Meridian and Number of Indians belonging thereto 1881. Washington, DC: US Congress, 1881. 20 x 15 in., matted and framed, 24 x 19 in. The 86th meridian bisects the state of Indiana. Much of Michigan lies between 84-86o. By the 1880s, the Indian Wars were winding down, most native peoples being confined to assigned lands, sometimes nowhere near their original territories, as was the case for most of the Oklahoma, or "Indian Territory" lands. The map shows established reservations, lands to be established as Indian Lands and a couple of "Lands, the Indian title to which is being extinguished." The largest of these is in Colorado on the Utah border, between a Navajo reservation and Uintah Valley in Utah. In the north is marked the "White River late Agy." This was the site of the infamous Meeker Massacre. Indian Agent Nathan Meeker angered the Utes by plowing a field they used for grazing horses, in an attempt to teach them farming. Meeker asked the army for assistance. AS Major Thomas Thornburgh was fighting Utes in an attempt to reach the White River Agency and Meeker, another group of Utes had descended on the agency and killed Meeker and ten male employees and kidnapped three women and two children. This became known as the Meeker Massacre. Eventually Colonel Wesley Merritt arrived with more reinforcements, eventually ending the war with the Utes. The inevitable result of these conflicts was the loss of territory, and that was the piece of land to which Ute title was being extinguished. Another sizeable area was a piece of land to the north of Yellowstone National Park, that was part of the Crow reservation. The western and southern part of the old reservation was ceded to the United States in 1882, 1892 and 1906. The other large chunk of ceded land was the Malheur Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon and northern Nevada. The federal government "discontinued" this reservation after the Bannock War of 1878. Of course, many of these lands were taken from Indians because whites wanted them. This was especially the case with the latter. The various Indian reservations have numbers indicating the population of each. According to the 1880 census, the number of Indians was around a quarter of a million, most controlled by government agencies. Condition: Appears to be fine. Not removed from frame for examination. A few areas of light "ghosting" from when the map was folded are faintly visible.