Books and articles

Cumming, William P. The Southeast in Early Maps, 3rd ed., revised and enlarged by Louis de Vorsey. Chapel Hills: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Lewis, G. Malcolm, ed. Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. See especially, chapters 8 and 9.
Schwartz, Seymour I. and Ralph E. Ehrenberg. The Mapping of America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980.
Waselkov, Gregory W. "Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast." In Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, ed. Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989, pp. 292-346.
Warhus, Mark. Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
American Indians 3 vols. Pasadena, CA and Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1995.
Hoxie, Frederick E. Encyclopedia of North American Indians. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
Sturtevant, William G. Handbook of North American Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978-98.

Supplemental Images

European Style Maps

• Champlain map of New France, 1612 (provided as eastern portion and western portion). de Champlain, Samuel. Carte Géographique de la Nouvelle Franse. Paris, 1612. Newberry Library call number: Ayer map4F oG3300 1612 .C5
• Popple map, 1733. Popple, Henry. A Map of the British Empire in North America. London, 1733. Newberry Library call number: Graff *3322
• Senex map, 1719. Senex, John (after Guillaume Delisle). A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi. London, ca. 1719. Newberry Library call number: Smith map 11.
• Smith map of New England, 1616. Smith, John. "New England" (1612) from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1632. Newberry Library call number: Ayer *150.5 V7 S6 1627
• Smith map of Virginia, 1612. Smith, John. "Virginia" (1612) from The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. London, 1632. Newberry Library call number: Ayer *150.5 V7 S6 1632

Supplemental Texts

Descriptions of a first encounter

• Captain Cook's encounter with natives of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) in 1778-79. Excerpts from James Cook and James King, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780, 2nd. Ed. 3 vols. G. Nicol and T. Cadell: London, 1785. Newberry call Number: Case fG 13.19 Vol. 2.
  • Cook's Journal entry for January 19 - 21, 1778
  • Cook's Journal entry for November 26 - 30, 1778
  • King's Journal entry for January 19 - 26, 1779
  
  
• A White-Indian encounter along the Oregon Trail (Traveling the Oregon Trail as a Child). Excerpt from Lord, Elizabeth. Reminiscences of Eastern Oregon. Portland, OR: The Irwin-Hudson Co., 1903. Newberry Library call number: Graff 2534.
• The Columbus Letter (Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, Portland Maine). A Web site on the letter announcing Columbus's discovery that includes a complete translation of the letter.
• Modern History Sourcebook: Hernan Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V, 1520 (Fordham University). An English translation of Cortés's letter to the King of Spain announcing the conquest of Mexico.

Grade 3-5 Resources

• Popple map, 1733
• Senex map, 1719
• Other maps are reproduced in Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps

Grade 6-8 Resources

• descriptions of a first encounter (see Supplemental Texts)

Grade 9-12 Resources

• Champlain map of New France, 1612 (western portion)
• Champlain map of New France, 1612 (eastern portion)
• Smith map of Virginia, 1612