Buffalo Frontier Medicine Man

1885 Map of the 1840 Indian Frontier

5" x 7"

Joe Pulliam, Oglala Lakota

Map Origin: U.S. Government

This map is from the Bureau of Ethnology’s Report to the Smithsonian in 1884, published in 1885. The map shows not only the Eastern Tribes that have been relocated in the area of present day Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, but it also locates a number of tribes that had not yet signed treaties.